Senior Android Engineer - Payments

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a trusted marketplace and travel community. This level of trust is critical to the success of Airbnb and has to extend to each payment experience. Payments enables trust and is a core and strategic part of Airbnb fueling growth with easy to use payment services. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars in 191 countries with 75 currencies through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners global licenses and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.

The Difference You Will Make:

You’ll play an impactful role to build mobile-first payment experiences on one of the fastest growing platforms for Airbnb. You will get the unique career opportunity to work across multiple agile product teams and make a significant impact for our guest and host community around the world. You will also get to work with a group of talented and passionate mobile engineers.

Recent projects the team has worked on include:

• Provide localized payment options so guests can pay how they prefer to pay

• Build earnings dashboard to provide information and insights to enable hosts to better understand and manage their earnings

• Enable server-driven UI to provide more responsive and customized payment experiences on the Airbnb platform

• Experimenting with redesigning our mobile payment experiences to drive checkout conversion

• Native foundation modernization through platform compliance upgrade performance and observability improvements

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with product managers designers and engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android

• Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable performant and scalable mobile solutions

• Follow data-driven approaches to conduct experiments and iterate features

• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for mobile best practices

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years' industry experience in Android development

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

• Fluency in Kotlin/Java and Jetpack Compose

• Experience shipping one or more Android apps

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with experience working well within engineering and across functions

• Passionate about design and building UX products

• Pushing boundaries of design and product features by balancing tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution

• Interest in innovations within the mobile and payment industries

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.

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