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Director, Payments Engineering
Airbnb
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Engineering Directors at Airbnb:
• As Director of Engineering for Payments, you will lead the complete global payment platform for Airbnb. Payments at Airbnb empowers people and communities to participate in the global marketplace. The team builds technology that powers trust.
• Directionally, the group is headed towards a future where payments can be completely transparent and simple, yet invisible and comfortable. The team works across the stack (frontend, backend, mobile, full stack) on a combination of user facing product (web, mobile) and large-scale infrastructure (Java/Scala services, APIs, big data pipelines). Payment product teams build for the community.
• As a product, Payments helps millions of entrepreneurs around the globe assess, manage, and grow their businesses. Payment infrastructure teams build for the business. The group improves and maintains systems that transmit billions of dollars per year, in real-time.
• The team is also responsible for secure reliable, time-based GAAP-compliant reporting and reconciliation within a global, two-sided marketplace. Payments needs to operate at the level expected of a publicly traded financial organization. In the future, the team will leverage machine learning and statistical modeling to improve the community and optimize growth.
• Meet the people, learn about the challenges, and read more about what we do at Payments here.
For this role, we value Engineering Leaders who have:
• 12+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 8+ hands-on technical management experience (leading both engineers and managers)
• Our backend technology is mostly Java based, so having prior background in writing high performance Java code is beneficial, but not required
• A demonstrated passion for working with data at scale and empowering organizations through data
• Exceptional understanding of distributed systems, data stores, and data modeling
• In-depth financial and payments expertise is a plus
• Exceptional architecture abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Actively coached and mentored both engineers and managers in their careers
• Been actively involved in setting data product strategy
• Independently started self-sustaining teams
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Ideal prior past roles
◦ CTO, SVP, VP, Director of Payment/Finance related companies and areas
◦ Experience across building both user facing product (web, mobile) and deep online/offline infrastructure
• External linkable resources for additional reading:
◦ Scaling Airbnb’s Payment Platform
◦ Tracking the Money
Benefits:
• Stock
• Competitive salaries
• Quarterly employee travel coupon
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Fitness discounts
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Apple equipment
• Commuter subsidies
• Community involvement (4 hours per month to give back to the community)
• Company sponsored tech talks and happy hours
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Much more...