Senior Software Engineer, Payments

The Community You Will Join:

Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace. We build technology that powers Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts and everything in between. Our goal is to make the Payment experience on Airbnb as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible.

Within Payments, Payins is a full stack team responsible for all aspects of the guest payment experience - generating quotes, onboarding new payment methods to allow guests to pay us in their preferred method of payment, and enabling self-serve methods to answer questions about their upcoming and previous payments. Payins engineers are expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on Product, Design, Data Science, Legal, and more to bring their vision to life.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are a sizable team with outsized responsibility. All money moving into Airbnb goes through our systems, which means engineers on the team are able to have a multi-million dollar impact on the business through conversion and payment economic improvement initiatives. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payins team, you will help build the systems that power money movement. You will be responsible for contributing to the broader technical vision for the team, driving alignment within the team and with our cross-functional partners, and maintaining a high bar for technical quality within the engineering team. Your efforts will lead to the delivery of highly visible and impactful launches -  like Buy Now Pay Later and Pay By Bank.

A Typical Day: 

• Lead the development and refinement of cross-org initiatives, delivering significant impact to our bottom line
• Working with cross-functional partners on Product and Design to triage, scope, and evaluate feasibility of proposed features and functionality
• Identifying new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunities
• Mentoring engineers across the Payins Engineering team
• Influencing cross-org Quality initiatives to reduce defect introduction rate, reduce incident detection time, and refine incident response processes
• Being a collaborative teammate that can help elevate the rest of the engineering organization

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Scala/Ruby on Rails/Python).
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web and data applications in a distributed manner.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented.
• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. . This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application,, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.