Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

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From Airbnb’s original posting

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments organization at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace and makes the Payment experience as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible. At the Payments team, our goal is to build and operate scalable systems that power payments ecosystems, host/guest protections as well as community partner experiences applying core engineering principles that leverage both time-tested and cutting edge technology. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Engineering for Payments, you will provide overarching guardrails on evolution of the architecture with special focus on Community Partner experiences, catering evolving business needs and…