Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

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’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Airbnb Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts.

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.

Payments Transactions team and Payments Payouts team are part of the core platform of the Airbnb Payments ecosystem The teams are building the core billing system and payouts system for Airbnb money movements

The team engineers are responsible for the seamless orchestration and recording of Airbnb’s payment obligations with our community They initiate, advance, and realize Airbnb’s payment commitments with our community in a way that is reliable, accurate, timely, scalable, and auditable.

The Difference You Will Make

We are looking for talented and self-motivated Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about working in this highly dynamic domain and collaborating with world-class XFN teams to advance our mission

As part of the Payments Engineering team, you will be in charge of designing and building a wide range of scalable systems You will be involved in the technical details of building highly available services in close collaboration with product, data science and operations teams to understand and react to the ever evolving business needs and to make Airbnb the world’s safest while easiest to use payments platform.

A Typical Day

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments Platform, you will

Work on multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems. Arc