Tech Lead Manager, Finance Integrations & Automation - BizTech

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airbnb was born in 2007 when 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 make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.</span></p></div><h4><strong>The Community You Will Join</strong></h4> <p>The Integrations &amp; Application Engineering team owns the integration and automation platforms at Airbnb. We enable teams across the company to self-serve in connecting their systems and automating solutions, and we integrate Airbnb’s enterprise systems end-to-end. The team also builds and manages custom in-house solutions and the application infrastructure that supports them.</p> <p>This is a hybrid IC and people-leadership role focused on Finance integrations and automations. As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead and grow a team of engineers while operating hands-on at a senior IC level, setting technical direction, owning delivery, and writing and reviewing code yourself. We’re looking for someone with deep ERP product knowledge who builds integrations in general-purpose languages, takes ownership of systems and people, and is enthusiastic about applying AI, building tools and integrations with Claude Code that extend what the team can do.</p> <h3><strong>A Typical Day</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead the Finance and ERP integration practice: set direction, run initiatives in parallel, and own the systems and processes your team supports.</li> <li>Balance management with hands-on work: unblock the team, review designs and code, and build complex integrations, backend services, APIs and MCPs yourself.</li> <li>Partner with Finance, Procurement, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into integrations, automations, and reporting.</li> <li>Coach and grow engineers and contractors through design reviews, architecture discussions, and career development.</li> <li>Own the smooth operation of month-end financial integrations and reporting, proactively surfacing and fixing gaps.</li> <li>Explore the evolving GenAI landscape, evaluate new models and techniques, and share the learnings.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Role &amp; Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead a team of engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and developing careers, while personally contributing at a Staff IC level.</li> <li>Own the architecture, delivery, and reliability of ERP and Finance integrations and microservices in Java / Python.</li> <li>Migrate integrations from Oracle Cloud onto our in-house platform, and extend that platform so teams across Airbnb can self-serve.</li> <li>Design and build AI-assisted automations and MCP integrations that extend internal platform capabilities.</li> <li>Contribute to organizational priorities and to defining the team roadmap and strategy.</li> <li>Uphold quality, reliability, and security through code reviews, testing, monitoring, and incident response.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Your Expertise</strong></h3> <h4><strong>Required:</strong></h4> <ul> <li>10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating production systems and integrations.</li> <li>Experience leading engineers as a manager or tech lead, with a genuine desire to grow the careers of others.</li> <li>Strong ERP product knowledge (Oracle Cloud ERP or comparable), including Finance modules such as R2R, P2P, AP, and AR.</li> <li>Strong proficiency in general-purpose languages (Java or Python), building microservices, APIs, and integrations from the ground up.</li> <li>Experience using AI in development to ship products from prototype to production (LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG).</li> <li>Strong relational database and SQL proficiency.</li> <li>Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex concepts for diverse audiences.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Preferred:</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and OCI/PaaS, and Oracle reporting.</li> <li>Experience building AI agents and MCPs, preferably using Claude.</li> </ul>