Senior Android Performance Engineer, Airbnb
Core Foundation
$184-223k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$184-223k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a Senior Android Software Engineer with passion for making the client experience performant through foundational frameworks and tooling, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years industry experience with client runtime performance
- Fluency in Kotlin
- Understanding of Jetpack Compose and declarative patterns
- Experience building codegen tools, codemods, and lint rules
- Deep understanding of Android core libraries, memory management, coroutines and concurrency, and networking
- Experience using Android profiling tools such as systrace and Perfectto
- Expertise of device and environmental performance considerations
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems at Airbnb
- Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
- Understanding of low end device concerns
What the job involves
- Our team, Core Foundation, is responsible for accelerating and simplifying the engineering process of building products for the end-to-end guest and host journey on Airbnb
- We create the paved path product engineers use to build high quality and performant experiences
- The Core Foundation engineers act as the bridge between Airbnb's Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams
- We work closely with other engineers from product teams, by understanding their productivity pain points and how to resolve them in a scalable, simple and flexible way
- We work with Data to create the paved path which product engineers use to get an understanding of how their surfaces are being used
- As a Senior Android Engineer focusing on Performance, you will be partnering with Product teams and Client Infrastructure teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of Android’s internal workings to optimize resource management
- Your primary objective will be to elevate the performance and quality of the client experience for all users across the world
- Take an active role in leading your projects through pull requests, code reviews, and managing milestones and deliverables
- Collaborate with partner teams to design and develop high quality libraries that improve resource usage and runtime performance
- Design and execute on a rollout strategy that reduces risk and reduces adoption barriers
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Android development and performance engineering
- Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s
- Your Expertise
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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