Senior Android Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Details

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 Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems.

The Difference You Will Make

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help meet this challenge by building and maintaining our test tools/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, and guiding designs and code to improve modularity and testability.
• You will understand complex systems top to bottom and work across technologies and codebases, handling ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• The tests, tools and frameworks you build must scale to meet needs of external customers and internal stakeholders to ensure Airbnb delivers a seamless high-quality experience.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI and build, maintain and support platforms — testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools — using Android development and testing expertise.
• Build and maintain test tools, frameworks and automation for Android mobile applications at scale.
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence on a high-performance team.
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment; make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with Espresso for Android testing.
• Demonstrated expertise developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at large scale.
• Excellent communication skills for facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact.
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Benefits

• Base pay shown is monthly; this role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Airbnb commits to inclusion and belonging; accommodations are available for candidates with disabilities via the provided contact email.

Compensation (as listed)

• Brazil Pay Range (monthly): R$26.666 — R$33.333 BRL

Location

• Offices: São Paulo, Brazil