Staff Software Engineer

Payments Processing team is the gateway and core platform of the Airbnb Payments ecosystem. We are the team that connects Airbnb to the outside world of payment processors for the execution of any payment anywhere reliably, accurately, conveniently, and cost-effectively. Our platform integrates with 20+ different Payments Service Providers, processing 70+ currencies across 191 countries and moving billions of dollars on an annual basis. We work closely with Partnerships, Finance, Product, Compliance and Legal teams to keep the money moving.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Payments Processing team, your mission is to design and build a payments gateway platform that is fast and easy to integrate with, reliable for money movements, smart to route our business cost-effectively, resilient to any external processor downtime in any market, and accurate for Financial reporting. We’re looking for engineers who are independent, thoughtful, creative, and passionate about building the best payment gateway platform. As a Staff Engineer, you will:

Critical to make technical decisions
Provide technical guidance for engineers and teams
Advise on architecture and propose solutions to payment problems that span multiple teams and organizations.
Consult on the performance, scalability, architecture, reliability, testability and engineering best practices of payment gateway systems.
Lead a cross-team group of engineers and partner with product, data, finance, operations to push the boundaries of what payments gateway platform can support.

9+ years of software development experience with a minimum of 5 years experience working within payments
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems.
Experience driving initiatives that span across teams or departments.
Ability to work independently while showing being able to deliver production ready code with minimal guidance
Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await).
Experience with Java
Experience with relational databases and caching solutions
Experience in designing APIs and building RESTful services.
Experience with message queuing, data streaming, and workflow frameworks.
Experience with distributed system and service-oriented architecture
Experience with Agile software development and Agile software solutions