Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Community Support Engineering 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

The CS Money team is spearheading the development of a pioneering platform for financial transactions related to community support, aiming to redefine the way money moves between guests, hosts, and Airbnb. This endeavor addresses critical challenges:

• Unifying Transaction Management: We're creating a comprehensive platform to consolidate existing tools, enhancing security and accessibility for all financial interactions within Airbnb.
• Enhancing User Experience: Our goal is to simplify financial processes with intuitive interfaces and automated workflows, significantly reducing manual efforts and errors.
• Facilitating Seamless Integration: We aim to ease the integration of new products and services, ensuring rapid adoption and streamlined financial transactions across Airbnb's offerings.
• Establishing Robust Controls: Implementing centralized spending control and oversight mechanisms, we're setting new standards for transaction integrity, compliance, and fraud prevention.
• Empowering Decisions with Intelligence: Advancing automation and intelligence to optimize financial decision-making processes, from transaction eligibility to fraud detection.

A Typical Day:

• Work in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with a cross-functional team
• You’ll be responsible for coming up with creative solutions using skills including Service Oriented Architecture, real-time system, anti-fraud and payments technologies
• Lead the team to design and complete our major technology transformation, and driven cross-team collaboration
• Mentor and grow other engineers in the team

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 2+ years with a PhD
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience
• Proficient in any of the following programming languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems (e.g.well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
• Problem solving: Ability to evaluate technical approaches to problems and evaluate tradeoffs
• Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with stakeholders verbally and in writing
• Strong project scoping and project management skills
• Ability to mentor and develop other engineers

Offices: United States