Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Details

You'll join the Payments Platform Engineering team, which owns everything involved in settling money in Airbnb's global marketplace, from collecting guest payments to paying out hosts. The team builds the platform behind all of Airbnb's lines of business, across infrastructure, core payment services, and user-facing payment experiences. You'll work closely with product managers, data scientists, designers, and operations, as well as engineering teams across Airbnb.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the next generation of Airbnb's Payments Platform: scalable, highly available systems that process massive daily transaction volume.
• Design and build service-oriented, modular, observable backend systems with well-defined APIs.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and operations to turn evolving business needs into product features.
• Take features from ideation through planning, scoping, implementation, and experimental A/B testing.
• Set up and tune monitoring and alerting to raise the quality and reliability of systems.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and review others' code to uphold engineering best practices.
• Work with other engineering teams across Airbnb to improve engineering processes and technical foundations.
• Ship reliable, well-instrumented services and product features end-to-end, with strong code quality and observability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in Payments or Fintech.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Experience working within a microservices environment, including RPC frameworks, service IDLs, and dependency injection.
• Familiarity with React or a similar JavaScript framework.
• Experience with architectural patterns for large-scale, high-volume web applications, including well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Experience delivering products end-to-end, including A/B testing.
• Commitment to code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail, with experience collaborating in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to make data-driven decisions and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs.
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Location

This position is US remote eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager. Candidates must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. If the position is employed by another Airbnb entity, the recruiter will provide information about eligible states.

Compensation

The base pay range is $196,000–$227,000 USD per year. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Inclusion and Accommodations

Airbnb is committed to inclusion and belonging and provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. Airbnb is an equal employment opportunity employer.