Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
Airbnb is powered by our Guests & Hosts. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high quality experiences for our outstanding guest and host communities.
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Within our Guest & Host organization is the Communication and Connectivity team, which owns the tools used daily by millions of guests and hosts, including Messaging (2nd most used surface within Airbnb) and Co-Hosting (key to the future growth of Airbnb). This team is formed exclusively by native engineers and is constantly working on very high visibility key features that are part of our bi-annual launches.
The Difference You Will Make:
We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our Communication and Connectivity team. This role will be instrumental in building and maintaining surfaces for hosts to interact between themselves (Co-hosting), as well as high traffic user surfaces like the inbox used for communication between hosts and guests. You will have the unique career opportunity to work across multiple agile product teams and make a significant impact on our guest and host communities around the world.
A Typical Day:
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android.
- Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices.
- Contribute to the Android ecosystem across all of Airbnb
- Be responsible for the technical design, performance and reliability of the cohosting experience, inbox, and other high traffic user surfaces.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years’ of industry experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users
- A Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS
- Strong collaboration skills with experience driving alignment with cross functional and cross organization teams.
- A strong product sense and a passion for Android UI and UX product development
- Experience shipping one or more Android apps, ideally currently available in the Google Play Store.
- Experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Motion are a big plus.
- Experience optimizing mobile applications (size, battery consumption, data consumption) is a big plus too.
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth.
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming.
- Interest in innovations within the mobile industry.
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.