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About this role
Build and maintain a world-class payments platform by designing and implementing backend services to mitigate disputes and chargebacks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, observable risk systems for Airbnb's payments infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 chargeback defense systems
- Developing and iterating on our dispute & chargeback mitigation and remediation strategies as risk scenarios/business requirements evolve
- Focusing on continuous monitoring and alerting to uplevel the quality and observability of our risk systems
Technical Overview
Backend focus with Java/Kotlin/Python; API-driven architecture; real-time risk services; data pipelines; observability and monitoring; frontend involvement via React is a plus.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a mid-level backend software engineer with 4+ years in payments/fintech, strong Java/Kotlin/Python skills, and experience building APIs and real-time risk services. React experience is a plus, with a focus on scalable, observable systems.
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Deal Breakers
Less than 4 years of payments/fintech backend experience, No experience with Java/Kotlin/Python, No APIs or data pipelines experience
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