Staff Android Engineer, Guest Displays & Platforms

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

The Community You Will Join:

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main Product Details Page (PDP) that brings together all the listing details, and anchors the guest booking flow as well as guest pricing and availability across all Airbnb product surfaces.

A Typical Day:

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapid prototyping; Recognize technical challenges in the early stages and collaborate closely with the team.
• Take an active role in leading and working with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations.
• Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale.
• Passionate about UX: You have a keen enthusiasm for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users.
• Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter.
• Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline.
• Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years’ experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users with an eye for visual details.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent professional experience.
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin, Java and Jetpack Compose.
• Strong product sense and a passion for UI and UX product development.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively collaborate with Product Management, Design, Data and other Android, iOS, and Web Engineers.
• Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy.
• Passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry.
• Sound engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming.

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.

Pay Range

$204,000—$260,000 USD