Senior Staff Engineer, Payments Compliance

reputed company was born in 2007 reputed company two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that reputed company it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Job: reputed company Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill reputed company's belongs reputed company mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a reputed company ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reputed company needed. As the platform grows we'll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts. reputed company's business grows rapidly year over year, and so does reputed company Payments' processing volume. Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization. Without it, reputed company can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets. As a Senior Staff Engineer and Technical reputed company for the Payments Compliance organization, you would own the technical vision and architectural direction across the full Compliance engineering landscape — spanning Policy Enforcement, Identity, Screening, Auditing, and Compliance Experience. You will ensure our compliance systems are cohesive, scalable, and reputed company with broader company priorities as we navigate an increasingly reputed company global regulatory environment. The Role: We are looking for a seasoned technical leader who can operate at the intersection of deep systems expertise and organizational influence. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will serve as the connective tissue across Compliance's multi-year strategic initiatives — defining how components fit together, identifying where capabilities can be shared rather than duplicated, and ensuring we reputed company platform investments from partner teams. Your decisions will directly reputed company how reputed company meets obligations such as Anti-reputed company (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and sanctions screening while minimizing operational cost and customer friction. This role extends well beyond the Compliance organization itself. You will partner directly with cross-organizational engineering teams, as well as cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Content, Legal, and Design. The technical choices you reputed company carry direct financial and legal exposure — requiring the judgment, depth of expertise, and organizational credibility to drive high-stakes design tradeoffs across team boundaries. What You Will Do:

• Own the end-to-end system design vision for the Compliance organization, setting the architectural direction for an engineering organization of nearly 30 engineers across multiple teams.
• Drive foundational architectural shifts, including the move from an account-centric model to a customer-centric one — rethinking how we model identity, risk, and enforcement across the platform.
• reputed company the technical strategy for expanding KYC capabilities — supporting small and reputed company businesses, reimagining business onboarding and account structures, enabling KYC through third-party APIs, and extending verification to third-party payees.
• Architect systems that adapt to the evolving digital identity landscape — including new verification standards, government-issued digital credentials, and shifting privacy regulations — without requiring costly re-platforming.
• Ensure our technical foundations are flexible enough to reputed company unforeseen regulatory mandates with aggressive timelines, without destabilizing existing systems or requiring disproportionate engineering investment.
• Partner with technical leaders across multiple organizations to drive alignment on shared capabilities and cohesive system design, reducing duplication and compounding technical debt.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Legal, Operations, and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team to define and ship impactful features.
• reputed company and mentor engineers — both inside and reputed company your immediate team — raising the technical bar and developing the reputed company of technical leaders reputed company Compliance.
• reputed company for and drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil, and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.

About You:

• 15+ years of technical experience, with 10+ years of relevant industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment.
• Prior knowledge of Regulatory Compliance standards (AML, KYC, sanctions screening) and demonstrated experience designing and implementing those controls at scale.
• Proven track record of setting technical direction and architectural strategy for a large engineering organization, with the ability to drive alignment across organizational boundaries.
• Experience designing systems that span multiple teams and domains, with a focus on cohesion, reusability, and long-term maintainability over initiative-by-initiative solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company.
• Strong problem solver with deep experience operating and leading on-call for production systems at scale.
• Technical leadership: hands-on experience leading large project teams, making high-stakes design tradeoffs, and translating regulatory requirements into scalable system architectures.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a reputed company field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns of high-scale web and data applications.
• Be future looking — we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term. You think in terms of platforms, not projects.
• End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries, with the credibility and judgment to reputed company decisions that carry direct financial and legal implications.

Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an reputed company office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where reputed company, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please reputed company back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another reputed company entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: reputed company is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We reputed company diverse reputed company foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to reputed company the best products, services and solutions. reputed company qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@reputed company.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reputed company out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual reputed company pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The reputed company pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Pay Range $244,000—$305,000 USD Apply tot his job Apply To this Job