Airbnb Staff Android Engineer Guest Displays & Platforms 

United States 

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The Community You Will Join:

As a Staff Android Engineer in Guest Displays & Platforms, you’ll lead the development and refinement of major new features at the heart of the guest experience on Airbnb. This includes reconciling new features with existing functionality, working closely with designers to shape desired product goals into a feasible and viable guest user experience, and last but not least, identifying underlying patterns and abstractions to help increase developer velocity while maintaining technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb guest experience.

At the Staff+ level, our engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experiencebuilding consumer Android applications at scale, preferably in Kotlin and Compose.
• You’re passionate about UI and Product development: deep knowledge of UI architecture and UI performance, with prior experience building delightful and fluid interactions, screens and graphics.
• Expertise in Kotlin or Java, and Jetpack Compose.
• Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem solving.
• Experience collaborating with product designers, especially in a remote capacity.
• Passion to up-level yourself and those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Bachelors, preferably in CS, or equivalent industry experience.