Software Engineer, Payments

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.Software Engineer_Payment EconomicsAirbnb 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 Join:Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb's belongs anywhere mission.We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we'll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.The Difference You Will Make:As a Software Engineer in the Payments Org you'll need to be passionate about payments. You will lead through influence and collaboration to transform concepts into reality. Your deep understanding of how money moves between merchant platforms and payment processing partners, including payment gateways, processors, acquirers, card networks, and issuers will be needed for ideating, advocating, and driving cost efficiencies across our payments platform. You're expected to be comfortable with ambiguity, and help the team enjoy working backwards from highly ambiguous starting points by leveraging data, running experiments, and following a structured approach to build business use cases that influence a diverse team of engineers, data scientists, finance, compliance, legal, and business experts. You should be able to guide and navigate the team through technical and regulatory constraints while simultaneously distilling and communicating complex subject matter to payments and non-payments stakeholders.  You will have to be passionate about building a high performing team and creating a unique culture. You will be expected to lead the team to work with engineers in the US to tackle these complex challenges.Aligned with our company mission, Belong Anywhere, we value the importance of diversity and belonging in the workplace, and that's why we commit to not discriminating on basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.A Typical Day:Build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systemsWork with product managers, data scientists, business analysts and operations to define, capture, and use real-time event data for business insights and product featuresCollaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in, validate, and evolvehow we build, test, and deploy code in a distributed Service-Oriented ArchitectureAlter existing and develop new data access and protection patterns to ensure ourcommunity's personal data is safe and secure, at scaleYour Expertise:3-5 years of industry experienceBackend or Full-Stack experience in a work-setting or classroom-setting.Work experience, open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on RailsEvidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).Understanding of data structures and problem solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade offsPassion for creating highly effective technology platform for our growing global workforceExperience with Agile developmentBe future looking; we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long termComfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourselfFocus on building high quality products; every one of our flows affects the business bottom lineData driven in how you solve problems and validate you've solved them correctlyHave a strong desire to mentor the careers and development of other engineersPossesses strong verbal and written communication skills.BS in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent work-related experienceOur Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:Airbnb 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. How We'll Take Care of You:Our 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 shown below is annualized, is inclusive of allowances and is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentives, one or more equity programs, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.   India Pay Range ₹3,050,000—₹4,350,000 INR