Tech Stack

Description

You will drive critical booking and post-booking flows on the Airbnb Android app, working closely with design and product partners to ideate, prototype, and ship innovative product experiences at scale. You'll lead the Android community within the Reservation Management team, mentor engineers, and build scalable practices that unlock product innovation.

Requirements

• 10+ years industry experience.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming.
• Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for Android client development).
• Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense.
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth.
• Interest in innovations within the mobile industry.
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners; from ideation to implementation at scale.
• Design and implement scalable Android practices across the Reservation Management team.
• Be a champion of the team’s Android community, mentor other engineers and uplevel the broader team’s culture.
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation.
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture.
• Translate prototypes to high-quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
• Write unit and integration tests, review other’s code.