Lead Payments Platform Engineer (Remote)

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the AirCover Insurance Platform. This remote USA role shapes core subsystems for policies, coverage, enrollment, and regional rules to scale insurance offerings globally.

You will lead engineers, mentor teams, and partner with product, data science, and legal to drive experiments, improve attach rate, and ensure auditable, compliant systems across regions.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend systems in large-scale services.
• Proficient in at least one of Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Experience with multi-region or multi-tenant architectures.
• Familiarity with regulatory or insurance/payments domains is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core subsystems for policies, coverage, enrollment.
• Lead engineers across teams and mentor others.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and legal to shape requirements.
• Build high-availability backend services with monitoring.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure scalable, auditable systems.

Skills

Backend systems design

Java / Kotlin / Python / Go

Multi-region platforms

A/B testing & experimentation

Relational databases / SQL

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Insurance/payments domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Distributed systems tooling

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the AirCover Insurance Platform. This remote USA role shapes core subsystems for policies, coverage, enrollment, and regional rules to scale insurance offerings globally.

You will lead engineers, mentor teams, and partner with product, data science, and legal to drive experiments, improve attach rate, and ensure auditable, compliant systems across regions.