Engineering Manager, Payments

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$212,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $185,900–$270,187 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $228k for comparable roles.

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$250,000 across 46 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Payments

As the Engineering Manager, Payments (AirCover Insurance Platform), you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers to manage the system that launches, prices, enrolls, and services insurance products across new regions. You will oversee the transition from region-by-region builds to a configurable, globally scalable platform while developing a rigorous experimentation engine to improve attach rates. Your daily responsibilities include defining long-term technical strategy, owning the team roadmap, and performing design and code reviews. You will utilize backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-availability services to build reliable, auditable systems for policy and coverage management. The role requires applying data and LLM-driven automation to improve coverage decisions. You must collaborate with Product, Data Science, Legal, and Finance teams to solve complex regulatory and pricing challenges.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $239400 from 45 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Scale the insurance platform by making regulatory, pricing, and enrollment rules configurable for global use.
  • Build an experimentation foundation to test coverage offers, pricing, and messaging to improve attach rates.
  • Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for the AirCover insurance platform.
  • Lead the team in building reliable, auditable, and scalable systems for policy and coverage management.
  • Own the team roadmap, technical direction, and operational health including incident response and on-call quality.
  • Incorporate data science and ML models into experimentation to improve business conversion.
  • Hire, mentor, and develop senior and staff engineers while supporting their career growth.
  • Stay close to the code through regular design and code reviews.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry.
  • 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager owning large-scale software systems.
  • Track record of setting multi-year technical direction for business-critical platforms, including major re-architectures or multi-region expansions.
  • Depth in backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-availability services.
  • Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers.
  • Strong product judgment using data, experiments, and measurement to improve conversion or attach rates.
  • Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners like Legal, Finance, and Operations.
  • Experience with insurance, payments, fintech, or other regulated domains (preferred).

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