Set the long term architectural vision for user experiences and backend systems that power money movement at Airbnb
Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams
Identify new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunities
Mentor engineers across the Payments Engineering team
Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship and maintain product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Airbnb engineering organization
Maintain health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time and delivering steady improvements Airbnb’s systems
Your Expertise:
9+ years of experience
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
Extensive experience working in Java (or equivalent) within a microservice architecture at scale
Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.
Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented.
Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions