Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

Details

Airbnb's Tax Platform team builds a scalable, configurable tax platform that minimizes risk, ensures compliance, and delivers a seamless user experience across many jurisdictions. The team owns guest- and host-facing product experiences and backend systems that enable Airbnb to operate globally. This role partners closely with Operations, Product, Policy, Legal, Pricing, and Payments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an engineering team focused on tax platform capabilities, recruiting top engineering talent and fostering a culture of craftsmanship and excellence.
• Establish technical vision and alignment within engineering and across cross-functional partners.
• Architect, build, and maintain flexible, always-available, efficient services that scale with business needs.
• Collaborate with Product, Partnerships, Pricing, Payments, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Tax Operations to define strategy and drive delivery.
• Manage dependencies across parallel tracks of work and contribute to technical quality practices and roadmaps.
• Coach and mentor engineers with empathy, create career development and mentorship plans for ICs.
• Refine team processes to enable effective prioritization, planning, and sprint execution.
• Represent the Tax team in leadership meetings and collaborate across geographies (India and the US).
• Drive metrics to measure the success of initiatives and support large-scale technical transformations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience and 4+ years of hands-on technical management experience.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through large-scale technical transformations and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Proven ability to set priorities and direction independently, including when Product Management is not present.
• Track record contributing to technical quality practices and organizational roadmaps.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across engineering and cross-functional partners.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and creating development plans for individual contributors.
• Previous experience building tax programs and systems is a plus.
• Experience working on product teams or customer-centric software for medium-to-large engineering organizations is a plus.

Location & Working Model

• This position is US - Remote Eligible. Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required, as agreed with your manager.
• Candidates must live in a US state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity; see Airbnb careers page for the up-to-date list of excluded states.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range: $204,000—$255,000 USD. The actual base pay depends on factors such as experience, skills, and business needs.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Airbnb promotes sustainable engineering practices, well-being, internal mobility, mentoring, and leadership development opportunities.

Inclusion & Accommodations

• Airbnb is committed to inclusion and belonging and encourages all qualified individuals to apply.
• Candidates with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation in the application or interview process can contact [email protected] with their full name, the role, and the accommodation needed.