Staff Android Engineer, Airbnb
Host Calendar
$204-254k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-254k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent professional experience
- 9+ years’ experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users with an eye for visual details
- Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin, Java and Jetpack Compose
- You possess strong product sense and a passion for UI and UX product development and can effectively communicate with non-technical partners
- Demonstrated ability to proactively collaborate with Product Management, Design, Data and other Android, iOS, and Web Engineers
- Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
- You’re passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry
- Sound engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
- Our ideal candidate has an excellent eye for visual detail, pragmatic approach and a proactive cross functional partnership with Design and Product
- The candidate has an absolute commitment to quality, is highly experimental, and not afraid to try solutions. If you are a fervent supporter of user needs and seek a role in a dynamic, teamwork-oriented setting, we invite you to reach out to us
What the job involves
- The Host Calendar team is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. We create tools that help our hosts run their business, giving them insights to help them better price their properties that hopefully lead to better returns
- As a Senior Android Software Engineer working in the Host Calendar team, you will help create the next generation of tools and features to help hosts run their business day-to-day
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Experience Designers, Product Managers and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android
- Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable mobile solutions
- Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors. Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
- Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapid prototyping; Recognize technical challenges in the early stages and collaborate closely with the team
- Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop Host calendar and availability functionality and surface insights / analytics
- Take an active role in leading and work with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations
- Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale
- Passionate about UX: You have a keen enthusiasm for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users
- Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter
- Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s
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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