[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb’s Payments Platform Engineering team builds systems for settling money across its global marketplace, from collecting guest payments to paying out hosts. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable, highly available payment services and product features, and improve their reliability, observability, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and build service-oriented, modular, observable backend systems with well-defined APIs
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and operations to turn evolving business needs into product features
• Take features from ideation through planning, scoping, implementation, and experimental A/B testing
• Set up and tune monitoring and alerting to raise the quality and reliability of our systems
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and review others' code to uphold engineering best practices
• Work with other engineering teams across Airbnb to improve our engineering process and technical foundation

Skills

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin, and comfort working within a microservices environment (RPC frameworks, service IDLs, dependency injection)
• Familiarity with React or a similar JavaScript framework
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
• Experience delivering products end-to-end, including A/B testing
• Commitment to code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail, with experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
• Ability to make data-driven decisions and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, or equivalent experience
• Ideally in Payments or Fintech
• Preferably in CS

Benefits

• May also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• US - Remote Eligible; the role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

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