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.
