Staff Android Engineer - Pricing & Booking Settings

The Community You Will Join:

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.

A Typical 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

Your Expertise:

• 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

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.