Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Payments Compliance
$212-265k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$212-265k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
- You are a strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production systems before
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction and strategy
- Nice to have: Prior knowledge of Regulatory Compliance standards and experience in implementing those controls
- Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
- Experience with HTML, CSS and modern Javascript frameworks such as React
- Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web and data applications
- Be future looking - we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term
- End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries
What the job involves
- Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services
- It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission
- We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners
- We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed
- As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts
- Airbnb’s business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments’ processing volume
- Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization
- Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets
- As a Staff Engineer in the Payments Compliance team, you would drive architectural decisions and implementation for the Compliance systems
- We are looking for a self-motivated leader who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams
- As a Staff Engineer, you would be expected to bring deep expertise in building and operating large-scale platforms, and support Airbnb’s entire Compliance program and scale it to efficiently adapt to ever evolving regulatory needs
- The Payments Compliance systems are complex and interface with various other parts of Airbnb
- The systems, APIs, experiences, and tools that you develop will implement controls to make Airbnb compliant with regulations from around the world
- This role centers on the compliance experiences that hosts and guests interact with directly, including the collection and management of the information we are required to obtain
- The scope also covers screening of individuals and businesses against global regulatory requirements, and the continuous auditing that verifies our compliance controls are applied as intended
- You will set technical direction across all three areas, because they are inseparable in practice: an experience is only as good as the compliance decision behind it, and neither holds up unless we can demonstrate the control was actually enforced
- As a Staff engineer, you’ll be responsible for establishing a technical vision and building alignment within engineering and cross-functional teams, all while delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business
- Your own unique skill set, rich experiences and thought leadership will be key to success in this role
- Lead the development and refinement of systems powering compliance
- Partner with technical leaders inside and outside of Compliance to design and build the Compliance systems that are service-oriented, configurable, auditable and efficiently leverage existing Airbnb capabilities
- Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features
- Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically
- Lead and mentor engineers, both inside and outside your immediate team, in building solutions and developing skills
- Advocate for and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations. Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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