Engineering Manager, Checkout – Booking & Pricing

Airbnb

Engineering Manager overseeing Checkout APIs and user experience at Airbnb. Leading full-stack team to ensure seamless booking processes across platforms.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $212,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team: proactively share context to help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
Implement an execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and teams across the engineering organization
Passionate about building intuitive and delightful products to solve real user problems while maintaining a high technical quality bar
Track record of growing engineers through promotion, meaningful scope expansion, or career pivots
Strong problem solver that has led a team operating large scale, mission critical production systems
Expertise building & operating Booking related systems such as transactional systems, payment flows, or high-availability APIs
Experience evolving large systems through incremental migration strategies while maintaining product velocity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits

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Hard Skills & Tools

engineering managementsoftware developmentproblem solvingsystem designcode reviewproduction systemstransactional systemspayment flowshigh-availability APIsincremental migration strategies

Soft Skills

communicationteam collaborationmentoringfeedbackvision developmentplanningtrackingreportingculture of qualitytalent attraction