Airbnb
About this role
Airbnb's Payments organisation handles settling money across its global marketplace, which means currencies, regulation, host and guest protections and partner payouts all in one system. This Senior Staff role sits above individual team scope: you would set architecture direction for Community Partner experiences, design decision support, knowledge management and workflow orchestration systems that use recent AI advances, and set standards and governance across teams. Airbnb describes the job as player coach, hands on when a problem needs it and hands off when another engineer should grow into it. It asks for 15+ years hands on. The notable part for Indian applicants is the location: it is remote and eligible anywhere in India, which is rare at this seniority in payments.
Who this is for
What the posting asks for:
- 15+ years of experience in a hands on software engineering role.
- A bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building, leading and architecting production systems or features with broad impact.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate on ideas, and working across Product, Design and Operations.
- Strong communication and collaboration with both technical and non technical partners, including driving initiatives across teams, departments and leadership.
- A track record of levelling up the people around you.
- Proven experience defining product or technical strategy and getting cross functional leaders aligned behind it.
The day to day: working with other senior leaders to define long term technical strategy and architecture, establishing technical vision and leading the work to architect and launch reliable and scalable systems, giving a balanced critical view of new and existing technologies, influencing cross functional partners, leading multi team technical initiatives, aligning technical effort with business outcomes, and raising engineering quality through design and code reviews, mentorship and hands on implementation.
Experience: the posting states 15+ years in a hands on software engineering role. Airbnb is explicit that this stays hands on, so it is not an architecture role that has drifted away from code.
Location: remote and eligible anywhere within India. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, agreed with your manager. Remote roles at this level and in payments are uncommon, which is the main reason this one is worth a look.
Who should apply: a very experienced engineer who wants payments scale and cross team architectural ownership while staying an individual contributor. If you are below roughly a decade of experience this is not a stretch application, it is the wrong role, and there are lower bands elsewhere in today's list.
- 15+ years of experience in a hands on software engineering role.
- A bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building, leading and architecting production systems or features with broad impact.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate on ideas, and working across Product, Design and Operations.
- Strong communication and collaboration with both technical and non technical partners, including driving initiatives across teams, departments and leadership.
- A track record of levelling up the people around you.
- Proven experience defining product or technical strategy and getting cross functional leaders aligned behind it.
The day to day: working with other senior leaders to define long term technical strategy and architecture, establishing technical vision and leading the work to architect and launch reliable and scalable systems, giving a balanced critical view of new and existing technologies, influencing cross functional partners, leading multi team technical initiatives, aligning technical effort with business outcomes, and raising engineering quality through design and code reviews, mentorship and hands on implementation.
Experience: the posting states 15+ years in a hands on software engineering role. Airbnb is explicit that this stays hands on, so it is not an architecture role that has drifted away from code.
Location: remote and eligible anywhere within India. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, agreed with your manager. Remote roles at this level and in payments are uncommon, which is the main reason this one is worth a look.
Who should apply: a very experienced engineer who wants payments scale and cross team architectural ownership while staying an individual contributor. If you are below roughly a decade of experience this is not a stretch application, it is the wrong role, and there are lower bands elsewhere in today's list.
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