Android Software Engineer, Airbnb
Trust Experience
$157-180.6k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157-180.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 2-5 years industry experience in native Android development
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Created and maintained Android libraries/SDKs that are consumed by other Android engineers
- Experience in the Fraud/Trust domain is a plus
- Extensive experience working with Kotlin, Android Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs
- Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
- Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
- Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
- [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with Compose, testing frameworks, 3rd party SDK’s, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments
- [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs
What the job involves
- As an Android Software Engineer, your expertise will be pivotal in developing and evolving the trust and safety defenses on the Android application.
- You will work closely with a team of cross-platform engineers with collective expertise in web, native, and backend development to define and shape the future of the friction framework with initiatives such as Airlock.
- The friction framework is used by Airbnb engineering teams to build frictions, and is pivotal in protecting our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our millions of hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards
- Work closely with product and design teams to design and develop key Trust & Safety features on the Android app
- Work closely with iOS and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions such as the friction framework
- Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality
- Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
- Participate in all phases of software development including architecture/design, implementation and testing
- Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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