Software Engineer, Payments

About the Team

Airbnb Payments team supports our mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts.

The Payments Growth team builds the payments features that drive Airbnb's revenue growth. We are a product-focused team that works with Product, Design, Data Science and Finance to deliver projects that grow the business. Our flagship product is the Earnings Dashboard, the one-stop place where Hosts track their earnings and performance, get recommendations on how to improve, and download reports.

The Difference You Will Make

• Build backend services and APIs for the Earnings Dashboard and other payments features that help Hosts grow their income and drive Airbnb revenue.
• Translate product, compliance and regulatory requirements into clean, well-tested code.
• Build the data and services behind Host performance metrics, recommendations and reports, and keep them accurate and fast for Hosts of every size.
• Implement experimentation, logging and metrics so Product and Data Science can test changes and measure their impact on Hosts and the business.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal and other engineering teams to deliver projects that grow the business.
• Use data to find gaps in conversion, Host engagement and reliability, and drive fixes and improvements.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions and operational improvements across the team.

A Typical Day

• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across the organization to understand and prioritize technical requirements.
• Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends.
• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices.

Your Expertise

• 2+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend/full-stack development.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Exposure to Java, and experience building services in a distributed microservice environment.
• Fluency in frontend web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and GraphQL, etc.).
• Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.

Location Information

This position is 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.