Airbnb
Engineering Manager, Payments
Remote - USA · Senior
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About the role
- 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.
- Your Location This position is US - Remote Eligible.
Responsibilities
- Grow a team that owns initiatives end to end, in an inclusive environment that values well-being and sustainable engineering practices.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Legal and Insurance leaders to set priorities across regional expansion, attach-rate growth and platform reliability.
- Stay close to the code through design and code reviews.
- Hire, mentor and develop engineers, and support their career growth.
- Track record of setting and holding a multi-year technical direction on a live, business-critical platform, including leading a major re-architecture or multi-region expansion while continuing to deliver.
- Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers, and creating an environment where they own initiatives end to end.
- Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners, including Legal, Finance and Operations.
Requirements
- Experience with insurance, payments, fintech or other regulated domains is a strong plus.
Compensation
- $212,000 - $265,000 USD
- We'll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process.
Benefits
- Scale the insurance platform to new countries and products by making regulatory, pricing, coverage and enrollment rules configurable rather than rebuilt for each region.
- Build the experimentation foundation that lets Product and Data Science test coverage offers, pricing, placement and messaging, and measure their effect on attach rate.
- Deliver a multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout on a fast-growing team with greenfield opportunities.
- Apply data and LLM-driven automation where it improves coverage decisions, quality and the Host and guest experience.
- Lead the team to build reliable, auditable and scalable systems for policy and coverage management, enrollment, pricing inputs and experimentation.
- Own the team roadmap, technical direction and operational health, including incident response and on-call quality.
Company info
- We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.
- Pay Range $212,000 - $265,000 USD Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
Equal opportunity
- If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
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