Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Native Mobile
$196-227k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
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$196-227k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep, current, hands-on expertise in both native iOS (Swift, UIKit/SwiftUI) and native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), not legacy exposure to one platform and active work on the other
- A track record of independently shipping medium-to-large complexity features on either platform without ramp-up, and the ability to read, debug, and reason about the other platform's code even where you're less deep
- Solid opinions on mobile architecture, backed by experience keeping two independent native codebases coherent at scale
- Comfort owning a feature end-to-end with real ambiguity, and identifying when a decision needs to be escalated versus made independently
- Experience partnering closely with design and product to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, platform-appropriate implementations
- A pragmatic view on cross-platform tooling — you understand why fully native matters here, and you're not looking for a role where you can lean on React Native or Flutter instead of doing the harder, more durable work
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can operate as a true dual-platform native engineer — someone with solid, current fluency in both iOS and Android
- You'll own features end-to-end across both apps, and you'll be one of the people trusted to make architectural calls that need to hold up identically on Swift and Kotlin
- You'll write production code on both platforms, and you'll also be expected to think beyond any single feature: flagging where our two native codebases are drifting apart, where a shared contract (like our GraphQL client layer) needs to evolve, and helping less experienced engineers ramp into dual-platform work
- Design and ship features across our iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) native codebases, often the same initiative, shipped in parallel on both platforms
- Partner with design and product to translate one product spec into two platform-idiomatic implementations, rather than porting one platform's UI onto the other
- Uphold architecture, performance, and app-size standards that apply equally to both platforms
- Weigh in on shared client contracts (schema, logging, testing frameworks) consumed by both apps, and flag when a change would let the platforms drift apart
- Help other engineers ramp into dual-platform work through pairing and code review
- Participate in technical reviews and architecture discussions where your judgment is expected to span both platforms, not just one
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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