Airbnb
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SoftwareEngineer,Payments
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“Software Engineer, Payments at Airbnb. Skills: Software development, Payments. Build and own features that directly power money movement. Contribute to cross-team initiatives that drive measurable impact on conversion and payment economics”
What You'll Achieve.
Make the Payment experience on Airbnb as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible; Drive measurable impact on conversion and payment economics; Reduce defect rates; Improve incident detection; Strengthen response processes
Industry & Context.
Analytical skills
Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity, Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3-5+ years of software development experience, BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
What You'll Do.
Build and own features that directly power money movement
Contribute to cross-team initiatives that drive measurable impact on conversion and payment economics
Work with cross-functional partners on Product and Design to triage
and evaluate feasibility of proposed features and functionality
Contribute to quality initiatives that reduce defect rates
improve incident detection
and strengthen response processes
Onboard new payment methods
Enable self-serve methods to answer questions about upcoming and previous payments
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on Product, Design, Data Science, Legal, and more; Work alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional partners; Being a collaborative teammate that can help elevate the rest of the engineering organization
Communication Scope
Communication and interpersonal skills; Clearly articulating technical tradeoffs
Process & Methodology
Planning, Scoping
Full Job Description
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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 Join: Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to the Airbnb experience. 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 flows through our systems. As a Software Engineer on the Payins team, you will build and own features that directly power that money movement. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to ship high-quality, high-impact launches - like Reserve Now Pay Later - while deepening your technical expertise and growing your impact over time. A Typical Day: Contribute to cross-team initiatives that drive measurable impact on conversion and payment economics Working with cross-functional partners on Product a
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