Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Airbnb as a Staff Android Engineer and contribute to building the paved path for Airbnb's current and future product needs. As a key member of the Core Foundation, you will partner with Product, Data, and Client Infrastructure teams to elevate performance and quality across all facets of our application.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 9+ years industry experience in Android Client / Product Foundation engineering
• Deep expertise in building product foundations that are utilized across many product teams
• Fluency in Kotlin
• Understanding of Jetpack Compose and declarative patterns
• Experience building codegen tools, codemods, and lint rules
• Deep understanding of Android core libraries
• Experience using Android profiling tools such as systrace and Perfectto
• Expertise of client and environmental performance considerations
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems at Airbnb
• Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
• Understanding of low end device concerns

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in leading your projects through pull requests, code reviews, and managing milestones and deliverables
• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers’ day to day flows
• Design and execute on a rollout strategy that reduces risk and reduces adoption barriers
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Android development and performance engineering
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s