Airbnb Engineering Manager – Payments 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

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As the Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading an accomplished team at the center of our Compliance program. You will have a large role in designing the systems and solutions fundamental to how Compliance, and Airbnb, will function for the next decade.

This role requires heavy cross-collaboration with teams across other Platform organizations (Payments, Trust, Tax) and functions (Product Management, Operations, Policy) to inform, validate, track and influence the implementation and maintenance of the rules that enforce compliance with Financial regulations within Airbnb's platform. Core aspects of the role include:

• Setting and communicating strategy and direction of the team to evolve and maintain policy data, rules and systems within Compliance
• Refining team processes and work divisions to enable effective prioritization, planning, and communication of the team’s sprint commitments
• Building relationships and working rhythms across peers and stakeholders in both India and the US
• Collaborating with organization Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist team in aligning architecture trade-offs
• Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities
• Creating deliberate plans and opportunities for addressing technical debt & quality, facilitating learning, and encouraging cultural engagement
• Participating in India site level and global initiatives to create a strong Payments organization

• 3-5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, with 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 6+ years of industry experience with a PhD
• Experience leading a team to manage complex evaluation & enforcement logic combining user, business, and geographic attributes
• Expertise proactively managing and communicating dependencies across parallel tracks of work and cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience creating expectations, coaching, and mentorship plans for ICs
• Comfortable independently establishing and validating priorities and direction in the absence of Product Management
• Track record of contributing to Technical Quality practices and roadmaps for the organization
• Experience managing distributed teams of varying experience levels
• Experience managing and interacting with geographically distributed teams and partners is a plus
• Previous experience building Compliance programs and systems is a plus

Offices: Bangalore, India