Senior Fullstack Engineer, Payments

The Community You Will Join

Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace. We build technology that powers Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts and everything in between. Our goal is to make the Payment experience on Airbnb as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible.

Within Payments, Payins is a full stack team responsible for all aspects of the guest payment experience - generating quotes, onboarding new payment methods to allow guests to pay us in their preferred method of payment, and enabling self-serve methods to answer questions about their upcoming and previous payments. Payins engineers are expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on Product, Design, Data Science, Legal, and more to bring their vision to life.

The Difference You Will Make

We are a sizable team with outsized responsibility. All money moving into Airbnb goes through our systems, which means engineers on the team are able to have a multi-million dollar impact on the business through conversion and payment economic improvement initiatives. As a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer on the Payins team, you will define the long-term technical vision for the user experiences and backend systems that power money movement at Airbnb. You will also collaborate with our partners and stakeholders across Airbnb, such as Guest & Host and Pricing, to drive highly visible launches - like Buy Now Pay Later and Pay By Bank.

A Typical Day

Working with cross-functional partners on Product and Design to triage, scope, and evaluate feasibility of proposed features and functionalityIdentifying new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunitiesMentoring engineers across the Payments Engineering teamInfluencing cross-org Quality initiatives to reduce defect introduction rate, reduce incident detection time, and refine incident response processesBeing a collaborative teammate that can help elevate the rest of the engineering organization

Your Expertise

5+ years of full stack software development experienceProficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Scala/Ruby on Rails/Python).Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.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.Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application,, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

How We'll Take Care Of You

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$185,000—$221,000 USD