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[Remote] Software Engineer, Payments

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global travel and hospitality company whose Payments team operates an in-house platform for processing payments worldwide. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable, real-time risk systems and infrastructure to detect, mitigate, and resolve fraud and other payment risks while collaborating with product, data science, operations, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Building and maintaining a long-term technology stack with well defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, and efficient
  • Working closely with data scientists, product managers and other XFN partners to build business insights, develop product features and respond to fraud attacks and risk issues across the platform
  • Building and maintaining integrations with third party vendors / payments networks & processors to empower our in house risk systems
  • Developing and iterating on our risk detection, mitigation and resolution strategies as risk scenarios/business requirements evolve
  • Focusing on continuous monitoring and alerting to uplevel the quality and observability of our risk systems
  • Collaborating with other engineering teams across Airbnb to advance our engineering process and technical foundation

Skills

  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer
  • Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Kotlin/Python)
  • Experience in React (or any equivalent JS library) would be nice to have
  • Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
  • Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
  • Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
  • Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with product, data scientists, design and operations
  • Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented
  • Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • This position is US - Remote Eligible
  • While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
  • Experience in fraud/spam detection/mitigation in the payments domain is a huge plus, but not required

Benefits

  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
  • US - Remote Eligible

Company Overview

  • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.airbnb.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 59 in 2026, 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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