Senior Payments Platform Engineer - Global Backend, Remote

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the AirCover Insurance Platform team. You will design and scale backend services, APIs and data pipelines that support policy, coverage, enrollment and regional rules across markets.

You will collaborate with product, data science and legal teams, own experimentation and telemetry, mentor engineers, and help improve reliability while building for a global user base.

Qualifications

• 5–9+ years of software engineering experience building backend platforms.
• Experience in multi-regional or global scale systems.
• Proficiency with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with experimentation and data-driven product decisions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and own backend services and APIs for policy, coverage, enrollment and regional rules.
• Translate regional requirements into configurable platform capabilities.
• Implement experimentation hooks, logging and metrics for product testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, Legal and other teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote code quality and operational excellence.
• Design, build and operate distributed backend services with monitoring and alerting.
• Write code and review designs, and make sound architectural trade-offs.

Skills

Backend development basics

Architecture of high-scale services

Relational databases / SQL

A/B testing / experimentation

Ambiguity tolerance & cross-functional

Excellent communication

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Airbnb is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the AirCover Insurance Platform team. You will design and scale backend services, APIs and data pipelines that support policy, coverage, enrollment and regional rules across markets.

You will collaborate with product, data science and legal teams, own experimentation and telemetry, mentor engineers, and help improve reliability while building for a global user base.