Airbnb Engineering Manager Payments Risk Tooling 

United States 

734663764

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Engineering Manager in the Payments Risk Tooling org, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of tools and systems designed to mitigate payment risks within our organization. Your role will involve collaborating with Product Management and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and develop strategies to automate tooling for agents and the engineering community while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Risk Tooling is in a nascent stage, so we have the opportunity to mature the experience offered by adding more capabilities such as SIMI tools, Advanced Risk Trends, Signal & Feature explorer, Friction & Model Management, and Graph & Analytics Tools. You will also be responsible for migrating existing tools to a newer tech stack and staying updated on industry best practices.

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with your stakeholders to shape the technical strategy and drive alignment on the direction of the team
• Conduct daily stand-ups to get an accurate view of your team’s output, strengthen team communication, and support engineers to do their tasks without any friction
• Proactively share context with the team, help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
• Collaborate with the team in India and manage the on-call support effectively- serving the agent community in a timely manner is essential
• Connect with stakeholders regularly and bring in alignment for smooth execution

Your Expertise:

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 6+ years of industry experience with a PhD
• Experienced building payments or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Successfully partnered with Product, Data Science, Finance, Legal, and/or Compliance functions
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering