Airbnb is seeking a Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host for its Reputation Clients team. You will play a critical role in partnering with product and design leads to drive Quality-focused initiatives, defining and shaping the future of Airbnb’s Listings and Quality product flows.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive critical product systems that enable the company’s future vision.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality user experiences.
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions for Quality-related 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 best practices.
- Conduct hands-on development, including design, code reviews, and leadership presentations.
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry.
- 1+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role, with ownership responsibility over multiple product surfaces.
- A product-focused Android engineer, preferably with experience using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Strong sense for product experience and business outcomes, and a willingness to experiment and anticipate future product needs.
- Track record of strong partnership with product and design leadership, through proactive collaboration, iterative development, and leadership demos.
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams, architecting, building, and releasing complex user products.
- Excellent engineering and coding skills, and experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Demonstrated ability to influence non-technical partners such as product managers, design, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall architecture and product/design capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Android, iOS, web, and backend engineers.
- A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community.
Nice to Have
- Animation and motion experience.
Technical Stack
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
Team & Environment
You will be a product-centric Staff Android Engineer on the Reputation Clients team, collaborating with design, product, data science, legal, and marketing.
Benefits & Compensation
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits eligibility
- Employee Travel Credits
- Compensation range: $204,000—$255,000 USD
Work Mode
This position is remote within the USA. The role operates in a local-country work mode.
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. Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
