Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host

The Community You Will Join

As a Staff Android Engineer on the User, Listings & Platform Client team at Airbnb, you’ll be responsible for defining, building and shaping the future of Airbnb’s Users, Listings, and Quality related product flows, such as user profile, listing management, reviews, and performance insights across the app. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

Your Responsibilities

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

Your Expertise

1. 9+ years of experience in Android product engineering at scale, with a BS/Masters degree, or 6+ years with a PhD.
2. Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Experience with Motion and/or prototyping is a big plus.
3. Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs.
4. You possess strong product sense and a passion for Android UI and UX product development.
5. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other iOS, Android, and Web Engineers.
6. Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming.
7. Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.