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Overview
Join Airbnb as an Engineering Manager for the Payments team, leading engineering efforts to build and operate critical payment systems while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Airbnb Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts. Payments is a core part of Airbnb’s business and guest/Host experience, operating across global markets, currencies, payment methods, regulatory environments, and partner integrations. We build and operate Airbnb’s in-house payments platform to support global scale, reliability, compliance, and product flexibility. The team works closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external payment partners to deliver trusted payment experiences for our community.
As an Engineering Manager on Payments, you will
- •Collaborate with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
- •Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions.
- •Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.
- •Lead team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
- •Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
- •Nurture a culture of technical quality and engineering excellence from design, through code review, to production.
- •Enable and empower ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations.
- •Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers.
- •Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.
How We'll Take Care of You
- •Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.
- •The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- •This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- •Pay Range $212,000 — $265,000 USD.
Your Expertise
- •3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
- •Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- •Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features.
- •Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
- •Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- •Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
- •Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.
- •Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact.
- •Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.
- •Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
- •Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders.
- •Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment.
- •Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent.
- •Strong commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams.