Airbnb Staff Android Engineer Client Data Networking Platform 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

• The Client Data & Networking Platform’s mission is to develop the client networking libraries, frameworks, best practices and tools that empower engineers at Airbnb to build fast and reliable data-dependent features with high velocity and quality.
• The team owns Airbnb’s in-house front end API client supporting REST and GraphQL used by nearly all of Airbnb’s teams and users
• Our team educates engineers across the organization, shaping the paved path, best practices and influencing the engineering culture

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with iOS and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience working with Kotlin, Android Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs
• Experience working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization
• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming
• Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
• Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs
• Interest in innovations within the mobile industry