Senior Frontend Engineer, Payments

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 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:

Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace. We build technology that powers Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts and everything in between. Our goal is to make the Payment experience on Airbnb as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible.

Within Payments, Payins is a full stack team responsible for all aspects of the guest payment experience - generating quotes, onboarding new payment methods to allow guests to pay us in their preferred method of payment, and enabling self-serve methods to answer questions about their upcoming and previous payments. Payins engineers are expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on Product, Design, Data Science, Legal, and more to bring their vision to life.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are a sizable team with outsized responsibility. All money moving into Airbnb goes through our systems, which means engineers on the team are able to have a multi-million dollar impact on the business through conversion and payment economic improvement initiatives. As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer on the Payins team, you will be responsible for setting the long-term technical vision for the user experiences and libraries that power money movement at Airbnb. You will also be able to drive alignment with our partners and stakeholders across Airbnb, such as Guest & Host and Pricing, to help drive highly visible launches - like Buy Now Pay Later and Pay By Bank

A Typical Day: 

• Working with cross-functional partners on Product and Design to triage, scope, and evaluate feasibility of proposed features and functionality
• Identifying new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunities
• Setting the long term architectural vision for user experiences and libraries that power money movement at Airbnb
• Mentoring other frontend engineers across the Payments …