Staff Android Engineer, Reservation Management

The Community You Will Join: 

Reservation Management & Additional Products

The Reservation Management team drives critical booking and post-booking flows in the Guest and Host Product. The team is responsible for large engineering systems that power Reservation Details, Order management and Alterations among other areas. Furthermore, this team is also responsible for the Experiences product booking flow along with a charter to explore newer product areas, executing on them end to end.

We are looking for an engineering leader who can be a champion for the Android community in the broader team, while driving end-to-end development of key products. Experience with building scalable practices that generally guide Android development for a series of products is a quality we are looking for. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated proficiency in collaborating closely with Design partners to rapidly ideate, prototype, develop, and ship innovative product experiences.

Learn more about the Mobile culture at Airbnb, also meet our Reservation Management leader - Sanyam Bhasin!

The Difference You Will Make: 

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale.
• Design and implement scalable Android practices across the Reservation Management team.
• Be a champion of the team’s Android community, mentor other engineers and uplevel the broader team’s culture.
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture
• Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
• Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code.

Your Expertise: 

• 9+ years industry experience
• 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.
• 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

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. Airbnb,Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously  evolving and being updated, 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 best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.