Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Client Data & Networking Platform team to develop client networking libraries, frameworks, and tools that empower engineers to build fast and reliable data-dependent features. As a key member of the team, you will work closely with iOS and Web engineers, partner with product teams, collaborate with infrastructure teams, and participate in all phases of software development.

Requirements

• 9+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience working with Kotlin, Android Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs
• Experience working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization
• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming
• Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
• Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs
• Interest in innovations within the mobile industry

Responsibilities

• Work closely with iOS and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross-platform solutions
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team's offerings
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call