Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Economic Payments 

United States 

524825505

A Typical Day:

• Lead the development and refinement of cross team projects optimizing costs
• Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features. Present product and technical deep dives to key stakeholders.
• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb’s Payments to serve our users holistically
• Lead and mentor engineers — both inside and outside your immediate team
• Advocate for and participate in efforts 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

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with payments is highly desirable.
• 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 in a distributed manner.
• End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries. Passion for building strong collaborative relationships with other engineering & product partners
• Able to self-serve on data analysis and make data driven decisions
• Rigorous attention to detail and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems
• Embrace the ever changing culture, prioritize breadth over then in-depth but can still go in-depth when needed.