Airbnb's Payments team aims to create a frictionless global payments platform to support the company's mission of 'belongs anywhere.' The platform must handle billions of dollars across 191 countries and 75 currencies, with no existing solution meeting the required global reach.
Requirements
- 5-9+ years of industry experience
- Backend or Full-Stack experience in a work-setting
- Require extensive experience working with Java in a distributed microservice environment
- Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
- Understanding of data structures and problem-solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade-offs
- Experience with Agile development
- Passion for creating highly effective technology platforms for a growing global workforce
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems
- Work with data scientists, business analysts, and operations to define, capture, and use real-time event data for business insights and product features
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in, validate, and evolve how code is built, tested, and deployed in a distributed Service-Oriented Architecture
- Alter existing and develop new data access and protection patterns to ensure community personal data is safe and secure at scale
- Lead complex projects through technical and regulatory constraints, distilling and communicating intricate subject matter to build alignment with all stakeholders
- Contribute to the broader technical vision to deliver a flexible, scalable, and highly available solution
- Foster a passionate, high-performing environment for the team
Other
- BS in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent work-related experience
- Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills
- Have a strong desire to mentor the careers and development of other engineers
- Be future looking; we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term
- Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself
