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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Airbnb
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $162,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Architectural Patterns, Automation of Tests, Email Filtering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Web Applications, ReactJS, Backend, Kotlin, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1807486/

## About the Role

* 3+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer.
 * Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Kotlin/Python). Experience in React (or any equivalent JS library) would be nice to have.
 * Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
 * Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
 * Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
 * Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with product, data scientists, design and operations.
 * Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques
 * Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented.
 * Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.
 * Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
 * Experience in fraud/spam detection/mitigation in the payments domain is a huge plus, but not required.

## Description

* Building and maintaining a long-term technology stack with well defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, and efficient.
 * Working closely with data scientists, product managers and other XFN partners to build business insights, develop product features and respond to fraud attacks and risk issues across the platform.
 * Building and maintaining integrations with third party vendors / payments networks & processors to empower our in house risk systems.
 * Developing and iterating on our risk detection, mitigation and resolution strategies as risk scenarios/business requirements evolve.
 * Focusing on continuous monitoring and alerting to uplevel the quality and observability of our risk systems.
 * Collaborating with other engineering teams across Airbnb to advance our engineering process and technical foundation.


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