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Staff Software Engineer
We are looking for talented and self-motivated Staff 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 Staff Software Engineer on the Payments Transaction team, you will:
Your Expertise
- Provide thought leadership, define strategy, influence cross-functional collaboration and drive architectural decisions.
- Lead 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.
- Lead efforts with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.
- Drive 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.
Your Expertise
- 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer.
- 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.
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