Staff Software Engineer, Payments (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Payments Funds Ledger team. This role involves designing and building scalable systems to ensure reliable tracking of financial transactions, collaborating with various teams, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.

• Make and own critical technical decisions.

• Advise on architecture and propose solutions to complex payments problems that span multiple teams and organizations.

• Provide guidance on the performance, scalability, reliability, testability, and engineering best practices of the payments platform.

• Coach and mentor junior engineers.

• Champion a culture of quality and engineering excellence.

• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to turn high-level ideas into concrete initiatives.

• Actively contribute to defining and managing the team’s roadmap.

• Design and build a platform that has strong reliability, availability and redundancy function.

• Build APIs and data models that can handle high QPS traffic with strong consistency and availability.

• Implement effective monitoring and alerting to ensure smooth functioning of the platform.

• Partner with Product and other stakeholders to innovate and lead new initiatives to improve our Payments transactions recording, orchestration, anomaly detections, reconciliation, payin and payout qualities.

• Use agile methodologies such as Scrum for effective planning and execution of projects that advance the roadmap.

• Maintain and resolve technical debt in payments platforms.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 9+ years of software development experience with a minimum of 5 years experience working within payments.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

• Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems.

• Experience driving initiatives that span across teams or departments.

• Ability to work independently while showing being able to deliver production ready code with minimal guidance.

• Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await).

• Experience with Java.

• Experience with relational databases and caching solutions.

• Experience in designing APIs and building RESTful services.

• Experience with message queuing, data streaming, and workflow frameworks.

• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.

• Experience with Agile software development and Agile software solutions.

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.