Engineering Manager, Payments

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. The Community You Will Join: Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

Airbnb Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts. Payments is a core part of Airbnb’s business and guest/Host experience, operating across global markets, currencies, payment methods, regulatory environments, and partner integrations. We build and operate Airbnb’s in-house payments platform to support global scale, reliability, compliance, and product flexibility.

The team works closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external payment partners to deliver trusted payment experiences for our community. The Difference You Will Make: As an Engineering Manager on Payments, you will lead one or more engineering teams responsible for building and operating critical payments systems. You will set clear team priorities, create an environment where engineers and technical leads can do their best work, and partner cross-functionally to deliver high-quality outcomes for Airbnb's guests, Hosts, and business.

You will be expected to navigate complex and ambiguous problems, balance near-term execution with long-term platform health, and help define a roadmap that supports scale, reliability, regulatory needs, and product innovation. You will partner closely with technical leads to make sound engineering decisions, reduce systemic technical debt, and uphold operational excellence for systems that move money at global scale. This role requires strong people leadership, technical judgment, stakeholder management, and the ability to create clarity across complex business and technical tradeoffs.

A Typical Day: As an Engineering Manager on the Payments, you will: 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. Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.

Requirements

for engineering systems. Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities. Nurture a culture of technical quality and engineering excellence from design, through code review, to production.

Enable and empower ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations. Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.

Your Expertise : [M1 - Engineering Manager] 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience. Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features.

Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.

Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.