Airbnb Software Engineer Payments 

United States 

202105277

The Difference You Will Make:

Business Platform & Solutions (BPS) is a payments engineering org with the vision to make payments easy and delightful for everyone. We are a full stack geo-distributed team focusing on building extensible platforms and scalable solutions to empower Airbnb businesses, communities, and payments innovations both globally and locally. We are looking for a self-motivated tech lead who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-site teams. As a software engineer, you are in charge of coming up with creative solutions at scale using skills including distributed systems, data processing pipelines, real-time system and payments technologies. The team is transforming how payments enable business as a platform in a multi-year effort, we have the following major technical challenges:

• Payments Facade: As Airbnb next generation Payments APIs, Payments Facade is the single payments interface for ALL product teams to integrate with payments, aiming to provide seamless payments integration. It provides highly simplified APIs with intuitive schema and manages all payments internal orchestrations across systems.
• Business Launchpad: business integration and onboarding to the payments system is complex, causing multiple pain points to both business/platform teams as well as payments teams: 1) complicated integration touchpoints; 2) large efforts with long development periods; 3) business customizations compromise core payments systems quality and maintainability, etc. We’re building this business platform to significantly simplify the business <> payments integrations and provide seamless onboarding experience to all businesses. It’s one of the most critical architecture domains in the payments systems.
• Unified Payments Data: Payments systems and data are very complex. Payments data are scattered among tens of services. The Payments system lacks an aggregation layer to construct the data ready to be consumed by clients. Each client needs to fetch data from multiple payments services and duplicate the aggregation logic on their own. It is challenging for clients to discover the right source-of-truth. In addition, Payments data models are highly normalized, getting aggregated data would require joining multiple db tables and is very expensive. Payments Unified Data Read provides a unified architecture for clients to efficiently and performantly access payments data through unified interface and read optimized store. Read more in this blog post:
• Multi Item Checkout Platform: our current architecture is limited to a single item checkout and payments. Multi-item checkout platform (MICP) is the underlying platform capability that enables multiple offerings on the checkout flow and provides guests with an optimized end-to-end purchase experience. In addition, MICP also provides hosts the ability to upsell value added services and enables Airbnb to offer additional products. MICP fundamentally changes the core paradigm from a single checkout limited architecture to a multi-item checkout platform that offers scalability and flexibility and provides significant value for our communities.

A Typical Day:

• Build payments solutions for Airbnb new businesses and products
• Contribute to design and build our major technology transformation (see challenges above)
• Craft pragmatic solutions and be the bar raiser for quality and extensibility
• Amplify team impact through leadership and collaborations

Your Expertise:

• Proven ability to execute on major engineering projects with a high quality bar; ability to execute projects from start to finish
• Proficient in any of the following programming languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• Problem solving: Ability to evaluate technical approaches and tradeoffs
• Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with stakeholders verbally and in writing
• Strong project scoping and project management skills
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience

Offices: United States