Software Engineer, Payments Compliance

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. 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.

Airbnb’s business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments’ processing volume. Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization. Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets. 

The Role:

We are looking for a self-motivated engineer who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams. As a Software Engineer, you would be expected to bring in expertise of building and maintaining large scale systems, and platforms, and support Airbnb’s entire Compliance program and scale it to efficiently adapt to ever evolving regulatory needs. The Payments Compliance systems are complex and interface with various other parts of Airbnb. The systems, APIs, experiences, and tools that you develop will implement controls to make Airbnb compliant with regulations from around the world.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll design and deliver high‑quality features and services from concept to production, collaborating closely with product, design, and cross‑functional partners to solve real customer problems. You’ll write clean, well‑tested code, contribute to technical design and reviews, and ensure systems are reliable, efficient, and scalable. You take ownership of outcomes, monitor what you ship, and continuously improve performance and developer experience. Your curiosity, craftsmanship, and bias for action—along with your unique skills and perspectives—will help the team move faster, raise the bar on quality, and create meaningful impact for our community.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
• Partner with technical leaders inside and outside of Compliance to design and build the next-generation Compliance system that is service-oriented, configurable, auditable and efficiently leverages existing Airbnb capabilities.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features.
• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.
• Advocate for and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations. Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.

• Build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
• Partner with technical leaders inside and outside of Compliance to design and build the next-generation Compliance system that is service-oriented, configurable, auditable and efficiently leverages existing Airbnb capabilities.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features.
• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.
• Advocate for and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processe