Staff Android Engineer, Airbnb
Pricing & Booking Settings
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
- Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for Android client development)
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Interest in innovations within the mobile industry
- Nice to have: demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, and experience in Prototyping
What the job involves
- The Pricing & Booking Settings team is looking for a Staff Android engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts
- Our team empowers Airbnb hosts to better run their business by providing the tools and education to implement pricing strategies that adapt to their evolving goals
- As a Staff Android Engineer working on the Pricing & Booking Settings team, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day
- Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
- Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality and surface insights / analytics
- With Engineering partners, 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
- Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline
- Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
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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