Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

The Community You Will Join:

The Tax Platform team at Airbnb is chartered to empower Airbnb’s growth with a scalable, configurable tax platform that minimizes risk, ensures compliance and delivers a seamless user experience. The team solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business.

We are composed of multiple, highly skilled teams of engineers that own Guest and Host facing product experiences and backend systems that unlock and protect Airbnb’s ability to operate across the vast number of jurisdictions around the world.

This is a highly collaborative team that works in close partnership with Operations, Product, Policy, Legal, Pricing and Payments function across the company.

The Difference You Will Make:

• We are looking for a self-motivated leader who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams.


• As an Engineering Manager, you would be expected to bring in expertise of managing large scale, and platforms, and support Airbnb’s Tax Engineering and scale it to efficiently adapt to ever evolving regulatory needs.


• You will be responsible for recruiting and building a team of top-notch engineers and building a culture of craftsmanship and excellence.


• As an engineering manager, you’ll be responsible for establishing a technical vision and building alignment within engineering and cross-functional teams - all while delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Your own unique skill set, rich experiences and thought leadership will be key to success in this role.

A Typical Day:

• Building relationships and working rhythms across peers and stakeholders in both India and the US.


• Represent the Tax team in various leadership meetings and similar forums.


• Finding ways to improve collaboration and communication for a strong team culture.


• Strategising and brainstorming opportunities along with Product, Partnerships & other cross-functional leaders and driving effective relevant metrics to measure the success of these initiatives.


• Last, but not least, you’re likely to be the one responsible for recruiting the right engineers by improving and adding new initiatives for the overall India site culture.


• Working closely with engineering teams to facilitate alignment on key architectural decisions and trade-offs, supporting effective and scalable solutions.


• Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities


• Refining team processes and work divisions to enable effective prioritization, planning, and communication of the team’s sprint commitments


• In addition to working with other engineering organizations such as Payments and Pricing, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Tax Operations, Data Engineering and Product.

Your Expertise:

• 10+​ years of relevant engineering work experience and 4+ hands-on technical management experience.


• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).


• Experience leading a team to contribute effectively to large scale tech transformations across multiple teams and stakeholders


• Expertise proactively managing and communicating dependencies across parallel tracks of work


• Demonstrable experience creating expectations, coaching, and mentorship plans for ICs


• Comfortable independently establishing and validating priorities and direction in the absence of Product Management


• Track record of contributing to Technical Quality practices and roadmaps for the organization


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.


• Previous experience building Tax programs and systems is a plus


• Experience working on a Product team or customer-centric software supporting a medium to large engineering organization is a plus.


• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.


• Career development-- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.


• Work on launching and expanding our protection products across global markets.


• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.


• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All 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@airbnb.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 reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.