Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Payments Payins

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will JoinPayments 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 MakeWe 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 libraries that power money movement at Airbnb. You will also collaborate with our partners and stakeholders across Airbnb, such as Guest & Host and Pricing, to help drive highly visible launches - like Buy Now Pay Later and Pay By Bank.A Typical Day• 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 systemsYour 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 decisionsYour Location:This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.Our Commitment To Inclusion & BelongingAirbnb 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care Of YouOur 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$204,000—$259,000 USD