Senior Android Engineer - Search Feed
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The Team you will join
Airbnb’s Search Feed team powers the core search experience that helps guests find their perfect stay. We develop highly impactful features, including Guest Favorites and Airbnb Categories, while collaborating closely with partners across design, product management, and data science to deliver experiences used by millions of people.
Additionally, we focus heavily on strengthening our technical foundation. Our work includes architecting scalable solutions that support our growing set of search features, addressing critical codebase pain points to boost developer productivity, and building robust infrastructure that enhance performance and reliability of search features.
The Difference You Will Make:
You will play an impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users. You'll solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with our codebase. You'll also guide junior engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
A Typical Day
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality Search features and enhancements for Airbnb Android app.
Identify areas of codebase improvements, drive mobile best practices and architect performant, reliable and scalable mobile solutions.
Provide critical input in the team roadmap and technical direction.
Prototype new features to collect feedback and iterate on to reach ideal product solutions.
Effectively advise stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of complex product requirements.
Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on features.
Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.
Your Expertise
5+ years’ experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users
Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Experience with Motion and/or prototyping is a big plus.
A strong passion for Android UI and UX development, with excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of app architecture, performance and scalability.
Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional partners.
Enjoy collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
Demonstrated adaptability and a flexible mindset to embrace changing priorities, willingness to shift focus between building new product experiences and strengthening our technical foundation.
Passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry.
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.
About the job
Senior Android Engineer - Search Feed
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
The Team you will join
Airbnb’s Search Feed team powers the core search experience that helps guests find their perfect stay. We develop highly impactful features, including Guest Favorites and Airbnb Categories, while collaborating closely with partners across design, product management, and data science to deliver experiences used by millions of people.
Additionally, we focus heavily on strengthening our technical foundation. Our work includes architecting scalable solutions that support our growing set of search features, addressing critical codebase pain points to boost developer productivity, and building robust infrastructure that enhance performance and reliability of search features.
The Difference You Will Make:
You will play an impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users. You'll solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with our codebase. You'll also guide junior engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
A Typical Day
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality Search features and enhancements for Airbnb Android app.
Identify areas of codebase improvements, drive mobile best practices and architect performant, reliable and scalable mobile solutions.
Provide critical input in the team roadmap and technical direction.
Prototype new features to collect feedback and iterate on to reach ideal product solutions.
Effectively advise stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of complex product requirements.
Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on features.
Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.
Your Expertise
5+ years’ experience developing Android applications at scale with a high volume of users
Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer Android applications, preferably using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Experience with Motion and/or prototyping is a big plus.
A strong passion for Android UI and UX development, with excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of app architecture, performance and scalability.
Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional partners.
Enjoy collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
Demonstrated adaptability and a flexible mindset to embrace changing priorities, willingness to shift focus between building new product experiences and strengthening our technical foundation.
Passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry.
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.