Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform — Remote

Airbnb; United States; Hybride; USD 196 000 - 227 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Airbnb is seeking a backend software engineer to join the Payments Platform Engineering team. You will design and build scalable, highly available services that process massive daily transactions and support end-to-end payment features across the Airbnb marketplace.

In a microservices environment, you will own APIs, data pipelines, testing, and observability, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and operations to deliver reliable, data-driven payment solutions globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in Payments or Fintech.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin, and comfort working within a microservices environment (RPC frameworks, service IDLs, dependency injection), plus familiarity with React or a similar JavaScript framework.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high‑scale web applications, such as well‑designed APIs, high‑volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Experience delivering products end‑to‑end, including A/B testing.
• Commitment to code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail, with experience collaborating in cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to make data‑driven decisions and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs.
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

Responsabilités

• Design and build service-oriented, modular, observable backend systems with well‑defined APIs.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and operations to turn evolving business needs into product features.
• Take features from ideation through planning, scoping, implementation, and experimental A/B testing.
• Set up and tune monitoring and alerting to raise the quality and reliability of our systems.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested code and review others' code to uphold engineering best practices.
• Work with other engineering teams across Airbnb to improve our engineering process and technical foundation.

Connaissances

Java

Kotlin

Microservices

APIs

React

JavaScript

A/B testing

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Outils

RPC frameworks

Service IDLs

Dependency Injection

Description du poste

Airbnb is seeking a backend software engineer to join the Payments Platform Engineering team. You will design and build scalable, highly available services that process massive daily transactions and support end-to-end payment features across the Airbnb marketplace.

In a microservices environment, you will own APIs, data pipelines, testing, and observability, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and operations to deliver reliable, data-driven payment solutions globally.