Staff Software Engineer, Payments Compliance

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe

Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission

We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners

We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.

Airbnb’s business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments’ processing volume Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization

Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets As a Staff Engineer in the Payments Compliance team, you would drive architectural decisions and implementation for the Compliance systems.

The Difference You Will Make

We are looking for a self-motivated leader who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams

As a Staff Engineer, you would be expected to bring deep expertise in building and operating large-scale platforms, and support Airbnb’s entire Compliance program and scale it to efficiently adapt to ever evolving regulatory needs

The Payments Compliance systems are complex and interface with various other parts of Airbnb The systems, APIs, experiences, and tools that you develop will implement controls to make Airbnb compliant with regulations from around the world.

This role centers on the compliance experiences that hosts and guests interact with directly, including the collection and management of the information we are required to obtain

The scope also covers screening of individuals and businesses against global regulatory requirements, and the continuous auditing that verifies our compliance controls are applied as intended

You will set technical direction across all three areas, because they are inseparable in practice: an experience is only as good as the compliance decision behind it, and neither holds up unless we can demonstrate the control was actually enforced.

As a Staff engineer