Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments — Architect Airbnb's Global Money Movement (Remote, Bangalore)
The Community You'll Join
Payments is the heartbeat of any healthy marketplace — and at Airbnb, it's the team responsible for settling money across a global community of hosts, guests, and partners. The mission: build and operate scalable systems that power the payments ecosystem, host/guest protections, and community partner experiences, using a mix of time-tested and cutting-edge technology.
The Difference You'll Make
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll set the guardrails on how Payments architecture evolves — with a special focus on Community Partner experiences. You'll envision and design decision-support systems, knowledge management systems, and workflow orchestration that harness the latest AI advancements.
A Typical Day
- Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term technical strategy and architecture
- Lead multi-team technical initiatives and refine priorities for engineering systems
- Be a healthy critic of existing and new technologies — championing sustainable innovation
- Align technical efforts with business outcomes across cross-functional teams
- Play player-coach: get hands-on when it matters, and step back to let other engineers grow
Who You Are
You're a seasoned payments or distributed-systems engineer who thinks in architecture and trade-offs. You set standards, drive governance, and influence without authority. You're excited by AI's potential to reshape internal systems — and you know how to ship it responsibly.
Why Airbnb
5+ million hosts, 2+ billion guest arrivals, and a culture built on belonging. This is a rare senior seat inside a team that literally moves money for the world — with the autonomy to shape how it's done.
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