Senior Frontend Engineer, Payments at Airbnb

Bengaluru, karnataka, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

16 Feb, 26

Salary

6500000.0

Posted On

18 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, UI Development, Motion Animation, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Design Systems, Payment Systems, Compliance, Data Analysis, Experimentation, Technical Strategy, Mentoring, Product Development

Industry

Software Development

Description

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 Payments ensures guests and hosts can transact effortlessly worldwide, providing flexible payment methods, plans, and currencies within the ecosystem. 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 Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer in the Payments Org you’ll need to be passionate about payments. You will lead through influence and collaboration to transform concepts into reality. Your deep understanding of how money moves between merchant platforms and payment processing partners, including payment gateways, processors, acquirers, card networks, and issuers will be needed for ideating, advocating, and driving cost efficiencies across our payments platform. You’re expected to be comfortable with ambiguity, and help the team enjoy working backwards from highly ambiguous starting points by leveraging data, running experiments, and following a structured approach to build business use cases that influence a diverse team of engineers, data scientists, finance, compliance, legal, and business experts. You should be able to guide and navigate the team through technical and regulatory constraints while simultaneously distilling and communicating complex subject matter to payments and non-payments stakeholders. You will have to be passionate about building a high performing team and creating a unique culture. You would be expected to participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals. A Typical Day: Design, develop, and refine payments and vetting features for Airbnb on the web, ensuring high-quality and performant user experiences Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb, understanding their productivity and feature pain points and building solutions to resolve them scalably and flexibly. Drive investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock new product innovation Identify Design and Engineer product development pain point and constantly improve the development efficiency. Contribute to the team’s technical strategy alongside leads to evolve technology choices that scale with Product and Design ambitions. Level up technical leadership within the team through effective partnership with peer ICs and mentoring. Your Expertise: 7+ years of industry experience developing consumer Web applications, and design systems at scale. Expertise using Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React) Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners. You possess passion for UI and Motion animation development, with attention to detail mindset [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools [Bonus] Have knowledge of PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance and best practices for securing payment systems. 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 shown below is annualized, is inclusive of allowances and is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentives, one or more equity programs, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. India Pay Range ₹4,500,000—₹6,500,000 INR

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and refine payments and vetting features for Airbnb on the web, ensuring high-quality and performant user experiences. Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb to understand their productivity and feature pain points and build scalable solutions.