Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Payments Platform 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

Payments Processing: The Payments Processing Team builds the gateway platform that connects Airbnb to the outside world of payment processors for the execution of any payment anywhere reliably, accurately, conveniently, and cost-effectively. We are a backend team integrating with 20+ payment providers like PayPal, Adeyn and Bank of America, holding the routing rules for 300+ merchant accounts all over the world, and consuming 50+ different financial reporting files for settlement and reconciliation purposes.

A Typical Day:

• Building and maintaining a long-term technology stack with well defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, and efficient.
• Working closely with product managers, data scientists and other XFN partners to develop product features.
• Focusing on continuous monitoring and alerting to uplevel the quality and observability of our systems.
• Collaborating with other engineering teams across Airbnb to advance our engineering process and technical foundation.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer.
• Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Scala/Ruby on Rails/Python). Experience in React (or any equivalent JS library) would be nice to have.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with product, data scientists, design and operations.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented.
• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.