# Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: Remote, USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Airbnb Payments team, which supports the company's mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The team builds and maintains a global payments platform that handles billions of dollars in transactions across 191 countries and 75 currencies.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments Platform, you will work on multi-team technical initiatives, architect and implement complex features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance Airbnb's engineering processes and technical foundations. You will also mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of the team's technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

- Work on multi-team technical initiatives and identify opportunities for business impact

- Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations

- Collaborate with product, data science, and operations teams to understand and react to evolving business needs

- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance

- Contribute to the development of the team's technical strategy

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role

- 1+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer

- Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of high-scale, cross-functional payment systems

- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in CS or equivalent experience

- Technical leadership experience, including hands-on experience leading project teams and mentoring engineers

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Benefits:

- Remote work eligibility

- Opportunity to work on a global payments platform

- Collaborative and inclusive team environment

- Professional development opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- payments
- fintech
- technical leadership
- collaboration

### Nice to have
- backend software engineering
- payment systems
- data-driven decision making

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