Staff Software Engineer, Payments – AirCover Insurance Platform
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Staff Software Engineer designing scalable insurance policy, coverage and experimentation systems for Airbnb’s AirCover platform. Leading backend architecture across regulated, multi-region markets.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and evolution of core subsystems managing policies, coverage, enrollment, regional rules and experimentation capabilities for the AirCover Insurance Platform
- Design future-state architecture to expand AirCover to new regions and products
- Lead the design of an experimentation framework for insurance offers, pricing and placement
- Lead engineers across teams in building solutions and own significant technical scope
- Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists and legal partners to shape requirements and engineering direction
- Raise technical quality through design, code review and production operations
- Mentor engineers and drive collaboration across multiple teams
- Apply emerging technology, including LLMs, to improve automation and Host and guest experiences
- Write and review designs and code for high-availability distributed backend services
- Make architectural trade-offs and scale services in a regulated, multi-region environment
- Analyze data to identify conversion and coverage gaps and turn insights into product and platform changes
- Present technical and product deep dives to stakeholders and leadership
Requirements:
- 9+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced tech environment, or 7+ years with an advanced degree
- Expertise in backend systems in large-scale, service-oriented architectures
- Real-world experience in at least one of Java, Kotlin, Python, Go or similar
- Experience designing multi-region or multi-tenant platforms with configurable, rules-driven behavior
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation systems
- Experience using data to improve conversion or attach rates
- Proficiency designing and operating high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- Experience in insurance, payments, fintech or other regulated domains is a plus
- Hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams
- Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Benefits:
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities


















