Staff Android Automation Engineer Quality Engineering jobs at Airbnb in Brazil, São Paulo

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with the Reliability Experience, Incident Management, Observability, and Resiliency teams to design and develop high quality UX.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing other’s designs and code.
• Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering, particularly in the Reliability and Observability space.
• Do all this in an opinionated fashion, with humility and curiosity, as we are our own product managers.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• Experience building internal infrastructure UX, particularly in Data or Observability spaces (Prometheus is a plus)
• Expertise in visualization of large amounts of data in a clean, concise fashion
• Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, Typescript, React and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...)
• Experience with is preferred but not required
• Experience with Grafana and similar solutions is preferred but not required
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of practical data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth without a dedicated product manager
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Staff Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by driving the strategy towards comprehensive automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Kotlin, Java) and strong scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Community You Will Join:

You will be joining during a defining phase—helping to shape a new office culture, establish best practices, and deliver technical impact that scales globally.

A Typical Day:

• Define and promote a quality mindset and strategy across the organization, by creating a vision that drives QE policies, programs and initiatives.
• Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers; empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Drive a sense of trust and belonging, and build inclusive teams with world class talent.
• Build and maintain our testing environments, testing data, and testing frameworks, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to analyze internal/external failures, and suggest corrective and preventive action.
• Use a data-based approach to help resolve internal quality issues to prevent defects in code shipment.
• Partner with global Infra leadership to execute the Brazil site’s technical roadmap.
• Drive excellence in technical design, reliability, scalability, and efficiency across projects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with global teams to ensure alignment on architecture, tooling, and standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers, fostering career growth and a culture of continuous learning.
• Participate in recruiting, onboarding, and community-building efforts to scale the Brazil hub.
• Support the Site Lead in establishing operational rhythms and local engineering excellence.
  

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of engineering management and 7+ years of industry experience, in a space with a strong focus on developer tooling, testing, or quality engineering.
• Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
• Demonstrated ability in the creation of testing standards, tools and methodology
• Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
• Led projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution
• Proven experience leading distributed or regional engineering teams and driving technical outcomes.
• Skilled in mentoring engineers and creating strong team dynamics across cultural and geographic boundaries.
• Be an agent of change inside the organization and be comfortable leading through ambiguity
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align local execution to a global strategy.
• Fluent in English; Portuguese proficiency preferred.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining our test tools/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company and product, the tests, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to the expectations of our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the test coverage, tooling and frameworks necessary to assure that our product workflows deliver a seamless high quality experience for our customers.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and build, maintain and support our platforms - testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise Android development and testing
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work closely with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin, Java and Espresso
• Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at a large scale
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil