Sr. Android Software Engineer - Insurance Engineering

The Community You Will Join:

The Insurance Engineering team builds unique products to address the protection needs of the Airbnb community. Our vision is to create one-of-a-kind protection programs for our hosts and guests to provide financial security and peace of mind.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to help us build delightful experiences strengthen our current offerings and deliver new products. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible efficient and scalable solutions. Each individual brings their own unique skill set experiences thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Work cross-functionally with product design and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build high quality products and features

• Drive lead and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design development test experimentation analysis and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design through code review to production operations

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree preferably in CS or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience building scalable Android applications for large user bases with a keen eye for design details

• Expertise 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.

• Extensive experience working with GraphQL

• Experience shipping one or more Android apps

• Passionate about continuous learning and staying ahead of trends in mobile development

• Strong coding skills with a solid understanding of data structures asynchronous programming and engineering best practices

• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for ambiguous problems and integrations across multiple teams.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders

• Strong product sense and a passion for UI/UX with a proven ability to translate vision into high-quality solutions

• Comfortable leading technical initiatives contributing to roadmaps and solving ambiguous challenges

• Motivated to mentor and improve team productivity through code reviews and architecture discussions

Relevant Links:

• Tech Talk: Adopting GraphQL at Airbnb

• Blog: Use of GraphQL and Apollo at Airbnb

• We value leveraging and giving back to the open source community (http://airbnb.io)

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: [email protected] . 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.