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Staff Software Engineer, Payments Transaction

Airbnb

$204,000 - $255,000
Jun 10, 2025
Remote, US
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Airbnb is looking to create a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer.
  • Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems.
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
  • Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Provide thought leadership, define strategy, influence cross functional collaboration and drive architectural decisions.
  • Lead multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
  • Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
  • Lead efforts with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations
  • Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Other

  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
  • Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.
  • US - Remote Eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.