Senior Android Engineer, Accessibility

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 engineers’ 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