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The Community You Will Join:
Tax Engineering at Airbnb solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business globally including quoting, invoices, collection.
We are composed of multiple, highly skilled teams of engineers that own Guest and Host facing product experiences and backend systems that unlock and protect Airbnb’s ability to operate across the vast number of jurisdictions around the world.
The Difference You Will Make:
You will lead the Invoice Platform team which owns the system responsible for recording and generating Invoices for Tax at Airbnb and providing a scalable foundation for additional products. With users around the world, development speed, reliability, scalability, and efficiency are our team’s core concerns.
A Typical Day:
- Building relationships and working rhythms across peers and stakeholders in both India and the US.
- Collaborating with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs
- Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities
- Creating deliberate plans and opportunities for addressing technical debt & quality, facilitating learning, and encouraging cultural engagement.
- Participating in India site level and global initiatives to create a strong Tax Engineering organization.
- Setting and communicating strategy and direction of the team to build Tax Invoice Platform for current and future needs.
- Refining team processes and work divisions to enable effective prioritization, planning, and communication of the team’s sprint commitments
- In addition to working with other engineering organizations such as Payments and Pricing, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Tax Operations, Data Engineering and Product.
Your expertise:
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience with a BS/Masters.
- Experience leading a team to contribute effectively to large scale tech transformations across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Expertise proactively managing and communicating dependencies across parallel tracks of work.
- Demonstrable experience creating expectations, coaching, and mentorship plans for ICs
- Comfortable independently establishing and validating priorities and direction in the absence of Product Management
- Track record of contributing to Technical Quality practices and roadmaps for the organization
- Experience managing distributed teams of varying experience levels
- Previous experience building Tax programs and systems is a plus.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.