Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global travel and hospitality company whose Payments team builds services that enable guests and hosts to exchange money worldwide. The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and build scalable, highly available payment systems, lead cross-functional technical initiatives, improve engineering processes, and mentor other engineers.
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
- Perform tech design and code reviews and mentor other engineers
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
- 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
- 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
- While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
- 1+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer is plus
Benefits
- Eligible for bonus
- Eligible for equity
- Eligible for benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
- US - Remote Eligible
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