Airbnb Senior Fullstack Software Engineer Financial Fraud 

United States 

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The Community You Will Join:

We’re looking for a senior full stack software engineer interested in building solutions to prevent financial fraud at Airbnb. You will be working closely with product, operations, design, and data science to align on solutions and gather insights in order to accomplish your goals. As the first full stack software engineer on the team, you will be helping to uplevel the front end development practices as well as contribute to the back end product features on the team.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a member of the Financial Fraud team, you will be responsible for defending Airbnb against financial fraud, including: Funds diversion accounts, misuse of incentives and coupons, gift card fraud, claims fraud, and preventing new forms of fraud on new product launches. You will be responsible for investigating gaps in our defenses, building out the detection of fraud using rules and heuristics, coming up and implementing remediation strategies and user challenges, and contributing to the overall product strategy.

A Typical Day:

• Be curious and proactive about ongoing fraud trends in order to analyze gaps in our defenses and our payments systems that allow for fraud to happen.
• Collaborate with other teams within trust and external to trust (payments team) in order to implement new defenses.
• Craft detailed engineering design docs to communicate and iterate on ideas with the team.
• Collaborate with ops to get their perspective on gaps in tooling and invest in improvements there.
• Brainstorm with the whole team to come up with new ways to defend against the new fraud trends and iterate or build those new defenses.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years minimum industry fullstack engineering experience or 2+ years of industry experience with a PhD
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience working on fraud prevention and integrity teams preferred but not required.
• Must be excellent at taking the initiative and creative in coming up with solutions to deliver on reducing fraud losses for Airbnb.
• Proficiency in one or more front-end server languages/frameworks (Javascript/React/jQuery)
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web and data applications
• End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries. Passion for building strong collaborative relationships with other engineering & product partners
• Ability to self-serve on data analysis and make data driven decisions
• Ability to self-serve on small design changes without designer support
• Rigorous attention to detail and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems