Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host
Description For Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host
Join Airbnb as a Staff Android Engineer on the User, Listings & Platform Client team, where you'll shape the future of user profiles, listing management, reviews, and performance insights. Founded in 2007, Airbnb has grown to connect over 4 million hosts with more than 1 billion guest arrivals globally.
As a Staff Android Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of developing crucial product flows that millions of users interact with daily. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with design, product, data science, legal, and marketing teams to deliver exceptional mobile experiences. The role demands expertise in building high-performance Android applications using modern technologies like Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
Your impact will extend beyond coding – you'll establish technical vision, architect scalable solutions, and mentor other engineers. With a competitive salary range of $204,000 - $259,000 USD, you'll be compensated for your expertise while working on products that genuinely connect people and communities worldwide.
The ideal candidate brings 9+ years of Android engineering experience, demonstrating mastery in mobile architecture, API integration, and UI/UX development. You'll need strong product sense, excellent collaboration skills, and a passion for creating efficient, reusable mobile components. This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging technical problems while directly influencing the way millions of people experience travel and community connection through Airbnb's platform.
If you're passionate about building scalable mobile solutions, mentoring others, and creating products that help people connect authentically with communities worldwide, this role offers the perfect blend of technical challenge and meaningful impact.
Responsibilities For Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products on Android
- Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable mobile solutions
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build and launch solutions for Listing and Users' Quality-focused products
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
- Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors
Requirements For Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host
- 9+ years of experience in Android product engineering at scale, with a BS/Masters degree, or 6+ years with a PhD
- Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
- Strong product sense and a passion for Android UI and UX product development
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other iOS, Android, and Web Engineers
- Excellent engineering and coding skills
- Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
- Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
