Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce, Android

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:

• Passport & Commerce builds the trusted account and commerce foundation that lets anyone, anywhere, become part of the Airbnb community - from their first sign-up, through the profile and connections they build, to every booking, benefit, and business transaction along the way.
• We're a newly formed org within Guest & Host that brings together identity and commerce foundations under one roof. Our mission is to move Airbnb beyond the transaction - building a world where accounts create trust, value sticks, and the benefits our community earns travel with them, and their businesses, wherever they go.
• You'll work closely with Payments and Wallet engineering, Identity & Privacy, Profile & Community, and Guest & Host product, design, and data science partners as we stand up this team's roadmap and technical foundations.

The Difference You Will Make:

• As a Software Engineer on the Android team within Passport & Commerce, you will build the Android experiences that bring various account features to life for millions of guests and hosts. You'll own well-scoped features from technical design through launch, working closely with your backend, iOS, and design counterparts.
• Success in this role looks like shipping reliable, performant, and polished Android experiences that keep parity with our iOS and web surfaces, growing your ownership over time as the Android presence for this team expands, and becoming a dependable contributor the team can count on to deliver.

A Typical Day:

• Design and build Android features using modern, declarative UI and unidirectional state architecture
• Partner with product and design to turn new concepts into polished, accessible Android experiences
• Collaborate with backend, iOS, and web engineers to keep feature behavior and data consistent across platforms
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and actively participate in code and design reviews
• Learn from and collaborate with senior engineers on the team, and contribute to shared Android patterns and best practices as the team scales
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, performance, and reliability issues affecting the Android app

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of professional Android engineering experience, including shipping features in a large-scale, production consumer app
• Proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android architecture, including declarative UI (e.g., Jetpack Compose), unidirectional state management (MVI/MVVM), and dependency injection
• Experience working with backend and other platform (iOS and web) engineers to integrate APIs and keep cross-platform experiences consistent
• A track record of delivering features from technical design through launch and iteration, with growing scope and independence
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a habit of seeking and acting on feedback
• Comfort operating with some ambiguity, including on a newly formed team establishing new surfaces for the first time
• Solid understanding of mobile app performance, accessibility, and release/CI practices for a large-scale consumer app

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range

$162,000—$186,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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