Senior Android Engineer, Airbnb
Quality Engineer, BizTech
$185-223k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-223k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin, Java and Espresso
- Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at a large scale
- Experience developing or testing distributed systems
- Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
- Hands-on technical leadership leading projects and defining roadmaps
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
What the job involves
- The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems
- We own and continuously improve Airbnb’s test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks
- We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems
- Build, maintain, and support the quality of our product workflows by developing and executing automated tests, collaborating closely with product engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for new features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes
- Build, maintain and support our platforms – testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems
- Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
- Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
- Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes
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 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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