Senior Android Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Guest Displays & Platforms team as a Senior Android Engineer, where you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining the main Product Details Page (PDP) that powers the guest booking flow and pricing across all Airbnb platforms. You'll work closely with product and design partners to solve customer problems, lead technical strategies for new projects and legacy migrations, and develop edge solutions for large-scale development. This role requires a passion for creating delightful user experiences, maintaining rigorous engineering standards, and driving mobile best practices. You'll also mentor and coach other engineers, ensuring consistency across codebases and processes.

Requirements

• 9+ years’ experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users with an eye for visual details
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent professional experience
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin, Java and Jetpack Compose
• Strong product sense and a passion for UI and UX product development
• Demonstrated ability to proactively collaborate with Product Management, Design, Data and other Android, iOS, and Web Engineers
• Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
• Passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry
• Sound engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming

Responsibilities

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapid prototyping
• Recognize technical challenges in the early stages and collaborate closely with the team
• Take an active role in leading and working with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations
• Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale
• Passionate about UX: You have a keen enthusiasm for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users
• Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter
• Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline
• Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s

Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits
• Pay Range $204,000 — $260,000 USD