Staff Software Engineer, Android Platform Frameworks

Airbnb

8d•$212,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

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 Android Platform team's mission is to provide best-in-class experience for Android development at Airbnb to empower engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale. We're ambitious in our vision, and our work spans a large surface area, from frameworks and tooling to build systems, CI, Testing, and IDE integrations. Our latest projects include Trio, an Android framework for Jetpack Compose screen architecture, and Focus Mode, an Android Studio plugin to supercharge IDE & Sync performance, among many others. The Difference You Will Make: In this role, you'll drive the design and evolution of foundational Android frameworks that product engineers at Airbnb depend on daily. You'll shape how Android apps are built at Airbnb by working on our screen architecture framework (Trio), dependency injection system, navigation, and testability infrastructure. Your work will directly accelerate developer productivity and app quality at scale. A Typical Day: Design and evolve foundational Android frameworks like Trio, dependency injection, and navigation to improve developer productivity and app quality at scale. Partner with product engineering teams to understand their pain points, identify systemic issues, and deliver durable framework solutions that simplify their work. Design frameworks with AI-assisted development in mind.

Requirements

9+ years of industry experience building Android apps using Kotlin.
Deep experience designing and maintaining shared frameworks or libraries consumed by large teams of product engineers.
2+ years of experience using Jetpack Compose.
Deep technical understanding of dependency injection systems (e.g. Dagger, Hilt, Anvil) and how they impact developer experience at scale.
Experience designing APIs and abstractions that prioritize usability, testability, and long-term maintainability.
Experience working in large-scale codebases where framework decisions have a wide blast radius.
Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Nice To Haves

Experience with screen architecture or navigation frameworks.
Experience designing plugin or extension systems that replace rigid inheritance hierarchies.

Responsibilities

Design and evolve foundational Android frameworks like Trio, dependency injection, and navigation to improve developer productivity and app quality at scale.
Partner with product engineering teams to understand their pain points, identify systemic issues, and deliver durable framework solutions that simplify their work.
Design frameworks with AI-assisted development in mind.