Senior Software Engineer, Payments Transactions (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Airbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests through unique stays and experiences. The Payments Transactions team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable systems for Airbnb's core billing system, ensuring reliable and efficient payment processing for the community.

Responsibilities:

• Work on 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.

• Work with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations

• Work on 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.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.

• 1+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer is plus.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.

Company:

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.