Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Airbnb
Financial Fraud
$185-233k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-233k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years minimum industry fullstack engineering experience or 2+ years of industry experience with a PhD
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Experience working on fraud prevention and integrity teams preferred but not required
- Must be excellent at taking the initiative and creative in coming up with solutions to deliver on reducing fraud losses for Airbnb
- Proficiency in one or more front-end server languages/frameworks (Javascript/React/jQuery)
- Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
- Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web and data applications
- End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries. Passion for building strong collaborative relationships with other engineering & product partners
- Ability to self-serve on data analysis and make data driven decisions
- Ability to self-serve on small design changes without designer support
- Rigorous attention to detail and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior full stack software engineer interested in building solutions to prevent financial fraud at Airbnb. You will be working closely with product, operations, design, and data science to align on solutions and gather insights in order to accomplish your goals.
- As the first full stack software engineer on the team, you will be helping to uplevel the front end development practices as well as contribute to the back end product features on the team
- As a member of the Financial Fraud team, you will be responsible for defending Airbnb against financial fraud, including: Funds diversion accounts, misuse of incentives and coupons, gift card fraud, claims fraud, and preventing new forms of fraud on new product launches
- You will be responsible for investigating gaps in our defenses, building out the detection of fraud using rules and heuristics, coming up and implementing remediation strategies and user challenges, and contributing to the overall product strategy
- A Typical Day:
- Be curious and proactive about ongoing fraud trends in order to analyze gaps in our defenses and our payments systems that allow for fraud to happen
- Collaborate with other teams within trust and external to trust (payments team) in order to implement new defenses
- Craft detailed engineering design docs to communicate and iterate on ideas with the team
- Collaborate with ops to get their perspective on gaps in tooling and invest in improvements there
- Brainstorm with the whole team to come up with new ways to defend against the new fraud trends and iterate or build those new defenses
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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