Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Reservation Management team as an Engineering Leader for Android. You will champion the Android community, drive end-to-end development of key products, and design scalable Android practices. This role involves collaborating with design partners, developing prototypes, and translating them into high-quality production code. You will mentor junior engineers and lead investments in new technical capabilities. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Airbnb offers competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 9+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
• Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for Android client development)
• Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
• Interest in innovations within the mobile industry

Responsibilities

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Design and implement scalable Android practices across the Reservation Management team
• Be a champion of the team’s Android community, mentor other engineers and uplevel the broader team’s culture
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture
• Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
• Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits