Staff Software Engineer, Payments Payins

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Requirements:

• 9+ years of Software Engineering experience w/ a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.
• Extensive experience working in Java (or equivalent) within a microservice architecture at scale
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.

Responsibilities:

• Set the long term architectural vision for user experiences and backend systems that power money movement at Airbnb
• Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams
• Identify new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunities
• Mentor engineers across the Payments Engineering team
• Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship and maintain product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Airbnb engineering organization
• Maintain health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time and delivering steady improvements Airbnb’s systems