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Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, highly available, real-time risk services for Airbnb’s global payments platform.
- Develop and maintain service-oriented APIs and integrations with third-party vendors, payment networks, and processors.
- Create and iterate on fraud and risk detection, mitigation, and resolution strategies.
- Monitor and improve the quality, observability, and alerting of risk systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, operations, design, and other engineering teams on product features and risk response.
- Deliver products end-to-end from ideation and planning through implementation and experimentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience as a backend software engineer, preferably in payments or fintech.
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language, preferably Java, Kotlin, or Python.
- Experience with architectural patterns for large-scale web applications, well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
- Experience or interest in React or an equivalent JavaScript library is preferred.
- Experience with experimentation and machine learning techniques.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and technical decision-making skills.
- Experience in fraud or spam detection and mitigation in the payments domain is a plus but not required.
Benefits
- US remote eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with the manager.
- Employees must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. or the employing Airbnb entity has a registered entity.
About Airbnb
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.