Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's User, Listings & Platform Client team as a Staff Android Engineer and contribute to shaping the future of Airbnb's user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and launch high-quality Android products. Responsibilities include building efficient mobile components, establishing a technical vision, mentoring team members, and collaborating on roadmaps. This remote-eligible position requires extensive Android development experience, expertise with specific technologies, and strong collaboration skills. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in Android product engineering at scale, with a BS/Masters degree, or 6+ years with a PhD
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
• Possess strong product sense and a passion for Android UI and UX product development
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other iOS, Android, and Web Engineers
• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android
• Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable mobile solutions
• Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build and launch solutions for Listing and Users’ Quality-focused products
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
• Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Motion and/or prototyping

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits