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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Airbnb· Payments
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Hybrid (India (Remote))full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Engineering role focused on defining and evolving the architecture for Airbnb Payments, with emphasis on Community Partner experiences. Includes hands-on work and coaching/mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and driving architecture strategy and governance.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Be a critic for existing and new technologies, providing a balanced view of the technology landscape and nurture a culture of sustainable innovation.
  • Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.
  • Lead multi-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.
  • Uplevel engineering quality through design/code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on implementation.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building, leading, and architecting production systems or features with broad impact.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership: hands-on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product, Design and Operations teams.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners, experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.
  • Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
  • Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipArchitecture & strategycross-functional collaborationMentorship & coachingCommunication
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

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