Software Engineer, Payments

Overview

Build and maintain payments risk engineering systems and real-time risk services to detect, mitigate, and resolve fraud and malicious activity across Airbnb’s payments platform.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, robust infrastructure for payments risk detection and resolution.
• Build and maintain a long-term, service-oriented technology stack with well-defined APIs.
• Work with data scientists and product managers to develop features and respond to fraud and risk issues.
• Develop and iterate risk detection, mitigation, and resolution strategies as scenarios evolve.
• Integrate with third-party vendors, payments networks, and processors to support in-house risk systems.
• Continuously monitor and improve alerting, quality, and observability of risk systems.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to advance engineering processes and technical foundation.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience as a backend software engineer in Payments/Fintech.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (preferably Java, Kotlin, or Python).
• Code quality practices including automated testing and engineering best practices.
• Exposure to architectural patterns for large, high-scale web applications and efficient algorithms.
• Ability to deliver products end-to-end, including planning, implementation, and A/B testing.
• Collaboration experience with cross-functional teams including product, data science, design, and operations.
• Communication skills, attention to detail, and capability to make data-driven decisions.
• A bachelor’s and/or master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in fraud/spam detection/mitigation in the payments domain.
• Experience with React or equivalent JavaScript libraries.
• Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques.

Details

• US - Remote Eligible.
• May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or offsites as agreed with the manager.