Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join:  The Android Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in-class experience for Android development at Airbnb to empower engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale. We’re ambitious in our vision, and our work spans a large surface area, from frameworks and tooling to build systems, CI, Testing, and IDE integrations. Our latest projects include Trio, an Android framework for Jetpack Compose screen architecture, and Focus Mode, an Android Studio plugin to supercharge IDE & Sync performance, among many others. The Difference You Will Make: In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving projects that increase the productivity of the Android community at Airbnb and unlock new capabilities through a combination of frameworks and toolings.

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with team members & cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving our developers’ productivity.
• Drive roadmap projects and deliver high quality results to further our mission.
• Improve our existing frameworks & build system to deliver on our ambitious vision.

Your Expertise

• 9+ years of industry experience building Android apps using Kotlin.
• Experience building frameworks and build-systems (using Gradle, Bazel, etc.)
• Deep technical understanding of how dependency injection systems work (e.g. Dagger)
• Experience building code generation tools (e.g. annotation processors, KSP, Kotlin compiler plugins)
• Experience working in medium to large-scale codebases.
• [Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using Jetpack Compose.
• [Nice to have] Experience building Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA plugins.
• [Nice to have] Experience using Compose for desktop.
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

How We'll Take Care of You

$204,000—$255,000 USD