Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Tax Experience 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

650787371

Include insight to the working environment:

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.
• Career development-- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.
• Work on launching and expanding our protection products across global markets.
• Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make:

• We are looking for a self-motivated leader who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams. As a Staff Engineer, you would be expected to bring in expertise of managing large scale, and platforms, and support Airbnb’s Tax Engineering and scale it to efficiently adapt to ever evolving regulatory needs. The systems, APIs, experiences, and tools that you develop will be used across guest and host surfaces around the world.
• As a Staff engineer, you’ll be responsible for establishing a technical vision and building alignment within engineering and cross-functional teams - all while delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Your own unique skill set, rich experiences and thought leadership will be key to success in this role.

A Typical Day:

• Lead the development and refinement of systems powering Tax.
• Partner with technical leaders inside and outside of Tax to design and build the next-generation Invoice system that is service-oriented, configurable, auditable and efficiently leverages existing Airbnb capabilities.
• Work closely with Product, Pricing, Payments, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features.
• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.
• Lead and mentor engineers — both inside and outside your immediate team — in building solutions and developing skills.
• 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:

• 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend / full-stack development.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale.
• Experience in Fintech, Tax, Invoicing is a bonus
• [Bonus] Experience working on a Product team or customer-centric software supporting a medium to large engineering organization.
• [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs