Summary
Join Airbnb's Digital Accessibility team to elevate the digital accessibility of Airbnb's Android app and contribute to educational resources and mentoring other Android engineers on accessibility best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience developing consumer Android applications at scale
- Expertise in Kotlin or Java, and Jetpack Compose
- Experience with UI and feature development that meet accessibility standards and best practices such as WCAG
- Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners
- Passionate about digital accessibility and proactive in upleveling self as well as others on the subject matter
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities for improving accessible product development on Android and drive at-scale solutions including design system improvements and automated accessibility testing
- Establish coding standards and patterns on Android that enable engineers to build accessible UIs, e.g. use of semantics in Compose, integration with accessibility services and events
- Partner closely with other accessibility experts in Engineering and Design to translate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) into actionable projects
- Uplevel Android engineersβ accessibility expertise through training and expanding the tech-wide Accessibility Champions Program
- Participate in weekly office hours alongside iOS, Web, and Design counterparts to support product designers and engineers
Benefits
US - Remote Eligible