Staff Android Engineer, Guest & Host

The Community You Will Join 

As a product-centric Staff Android Engineer on the Reputation Clients team at Airbnb, you’ll play a critical role in partnering with our product and design leads to drive our Quality-focused initiatives.  This domain spans across evergreen workstreams focused on Standards enforcement, as well as major release headliners that revamp our Insights and Host/Guest Performance experiences.  You’ll work with other engineers to define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Listings and Quality related product flows, such as reviews, performance insights, and supply onboarding and management.  The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

A Typical Day:

• 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


• Hands-on development, including design, code reviews, and leadership presentations.


• Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors

Your Expertise:

• 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.  You’re also aware of cross-platform similarities and differences, and can advocate for web and Android concerns


• Strong sense for product experience and business outcomes, 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 client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming. Animation and motion experience, a plus.


• 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

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: [email protected]. 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.