Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer, Payments (AirCover Insurance Platform)

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Base Salary

$212k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve architecture for AirCover policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, and experimentation systems.
  • Build scalable, flexible, highly available, auditable backend services for multi-region and regulated environments.
  • Lead development of experimentation capabilities for insurance offers, pricing, and placement, including measurement of attach rates and downstream outcomes.
  • Lead engineers across teams, own significant technical scope, make architectural trade-offs, and mentor engineers as a player/coach.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, data engineers, legal partners, and platform teams to shape requirements and engineering decisions.
  • Write and review designs and code, improve technical quality and production operations, analyze conversion and coverage data, and present technical and product deep dives.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of relevant software development experience, or 7+ years with an advanced degree.
  • Expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented architectures, with practical experience in Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or a similar language.
  • Experience designing multi-region or multi-tenant platforms with configurable, rules-driven behavior.
  • Experience with A/B testing and experimentation systems and using data to improve conversion or attach rates.
  • Proficiency designing and operating high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging, plus working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
  • Hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams and strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in insurance, payments, fintech, or another regulated domain is preferred.

Benefits

  • The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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About Airbnb

10,000+ employees

Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.

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