Senior Software Engineer, Payments Transaction Risk

Airbnb is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Payments Risk Engineering team. The role involves designing and building scalable systems and infrastructure to detect, mitigate, and resolve 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer
• Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Kotlin/Python)
• 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
• Experience in React (or any equivalent JS library) would be nice to have
• Experience in fraud/spam detection/mitigation in the payments domain is a huge plus, but not required