Software Engineer, Payments

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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.

The Payments Operational Tooling team at Airbnb is responsible for developing and maintaining web-based frontend tools and Java-based backend services that empower Customer Support agents and payment specialists to solve payment-related issues for our guests and hosts. As a member of this team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a seamless payment experience for our global community.

The Difference You Will Make

We’re looking for talented engineers who can fluidly work across the stack and are interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-site teams. As an engineer on our team, you will utilize your expertise and knowledge in frontend and backend technologies to contribute to the design and implementation of scalable and secure systems and devise creative solutions for developing intuitive and responsive user interfaces.

A Typical Day

• Develop and enhance our web-based frontend tools, creating a seamless and intuitive user interface.
• Build backend services and APIs to drive existing and new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align on product requirements, project milestones, and execution plans.
• Prototype new features to assess technical feasibility, collect partner feedback, and align on ideal product solutions.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in, validate, and evolve how we build, test, and deploy code in a distributed Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Partner with Design to innovate, prototype, and lead new initiatives to improve our user experience.
• Support the team’s efforts to improve code quality, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.

What you need to succeed

• 2+ years of software development experience building products for the web.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience working with one or more backend languages (Java preferred)
• Experience working with TypeScript/JS, React, GraphQL, and REST APIs.
• Comfortable working across the stack, implementing and shipping changes on both the frontend and backend.
• Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Understanding of data structures and problem-solving approaches, and the ability to articulate trade-offs.
• Passion for creating a highly effective technology platform for our growing global workforce.
• Experience with Agile development.
• Forward-looking mindset; ability to build for the long term.
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking obstacles.
• Focus on building high-quality products; understanding the impact on the business bottom line.
• Data-driven in how you solve problems and validate your solutions.
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.