Manager, Engineering - Payments (Tooling)

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 6 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission.We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.

The Payments Operational Tooling team at Airbnb is responsible for developing and maintaining web-based frontend tools and Java-based backend services that empower Customer Support agents and payment specialists to solve payment-related issues for our guests and hosts. As a member of this team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a seamless payment experience for our global community.

Aligned with our company mission, Belong Anywhere, we value the importance of diversity and belonging in the workplace, and that's why we commit to not discriminating on basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with your stakeholders in the US for alignment and shape strategies and technical directions.
• A typical day starts with a daily-standup, to get an accurate view of your team’s output, strengthen team communication and support managers, Tech Leads & engineers to do their tasks without any friction.
• Represent Payment operational Tooling team in various leadership meetings and similar forums.
• Finding ways to improve collaboration and communication for a strong team culture.
• Building a culture of Craftsmanship, where we are not only delivering on Business initiatives, but also take pride in the work and ship with confidence.
• If required there could be seldom international travel.
• Strategising and brainstorming opportunities along with Product, Partnerships & other cross-functional leaders and driving effective relevant metrics to measure the success of these initiatives.
• Last, but not least, you’re likely to be the one responsible for recruiting the right engineers by improving and adding new initiatives for the overall India site culture.

Your expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+​ years of relevant engineering work experience and 4+ hands-on technical management experience. Experience in managing multiple global teams is preferred/
• Experience with building payments or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Successfully partnered with Product, Data Science, Finance, Legal, and/or Compliance functions
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering

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.

If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.

Offices: Bangalore, India