Staff Software Engineer - Payments Transaction Risk

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Airbnb

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travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Description

• As a Staff Software Engineer on the Payments Risk team, you will play a critical role in designing and building systems to combat payments-related fraud, maintain platform integrity, and provide a secure, reliable user experience. • Your work will directly contribute to making Airbnb’s global community safer and more trustworthy. • Design and lead the implementation of complex, scalable systems to detect and mitigate payment fraud effectively. • Collaborate across teams, aligning architecture, dependencies, and shared goals with stakeholders in Product, Machine Learning, Finance, and Operations. • Provide technical leadership, making high-impact decisions balancing technical trade-offs and business objectives. • Mentor engineers at various levels, fostering technical growth and a culture of excellence within the team. • Drive the technical roadmap, aligning immediate projects with long-term organizational goals and addressing technical debt thoughtfully.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software development experience, with at least 5 years in payments or financial technology domains. • Strong understanding of payment fraud detection, chargebacks, and global payment processing flows (e.g., credit cards, bank transfers, e-wallets). • Proven experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, and/or Scala, with familiarity in asynchronous programming models (e.g., events, callbacks, promises). • Expertise in designing APIs, building RESTful services, and integrating message queuing and data streaming frameworks. • Deep experience with relational databases, caching solutions, and service-oriented architecture. • Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives.

Benefits

• The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.