Senior Android Engineer, Accessibility

The Community You Will Join:

At Airbnb, we aim to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Core to this mission is the accessibility of our product. This means that we should be consciously designing and building our product to support people with disabilities. The Digital Accessibility team works closely with Product Engineering, QA, Design, and Product Marketing teams to develop solutions that enable more inclusive user experiences. As part of the larger UI Foundation team that contributes to Airbnb’s design system and UI tooling, we are involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch. Check out some of the team’s recent contributions:

• Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
• Making Airbnb’s Android app more accessible
• Unlocking SwiftUI at Airbnb

The Difference You Will Make: 

This is a unique opportunity to meaningfully elevate the digital accessibility of Airbnb’s Android app for millions of guests and hosts. To scale accessibility coding practices, you will build technical solutions that range from tooling to foundational capabilities. While most of your time will involve hands-on development, you will also contribute to educational resources and mentoring other Android engineers on accessibility best practices.

• Identify opportunities for improving accessible product development on Android and drive at-scale solutions including design system improvements and automated accessibility testing.
• Establish coding standards and patterns on Android that enable engineers to build accessible UIs, e.g. use of semantics in Compose, integration with accessibility services and events.
• Partner closely with other accessibility experts in Engineering and Design to translate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) into actionable projects.
• Uplevel Android engineers’ accessibility expertise through training and expanding the tech-wide Accessibility Champions Program.
• Participate in weekly office hours alongside iOS, Web, and Design counterparts to support product designers and engineers.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience developing consumer Android applications at scale.
• Expertise in Kotlin or Java, and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with UI and feature development that meet accessibility standards and best practices such as WCAG.
• Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners.
• Passionate about digital accessibility and proactive in upleveling self as well as others on the subject matter.

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.