Engineering Manager, Payments

Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and the global community of guests and hosts.

As an Engineering Manager on Payments, you will lead one or more engineering teams responsible for building and operating critical payments systems. You will set clear team priorities, create an environment where engineers and technical leads can do their best work, and partner cross-functionally to deliver high-quality outcomes for Airbnb's guests, Hosts, and business.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture
• Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products
• Lead team technical initiatives and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact
• Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities
• Nurture a culture of technical quality and engineering excellence
• Enable and empower ICs to grow their impact and create opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives
• Retain, grow, and hire a team of high-performing engineers

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team
• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user-facing features
• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability, and availability

Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible.

Pay Range: $212,000-$265,000 USD