Android Software Engineer (Passport & Commerce)

Airbnb; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer time

Health food and snacks

Generous parental and family leave

Learning and development

Annual travel and experiences credit

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced Android Software Engineer to join the Passport & Commerce team. You’ll build Android experiences for millions of guests and hosts, ensuring parity with iOS and web surfaces while growing ownership over time.

You will design and ship features from concept to launch, collaborating with backend, iOS, and web engineers, and contributing to shared Android patterns and best practices as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Android engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android architecture, including declarative UI (Jetpack Compose), unidirectional state management (MVI/MVVM), and dependency injection.
• Experience working with backend and other platform engineers to integrate APIs and keep cross-platform experiences consistent.
• Solid understanding of mobile app performance, accessibility, and release/CI practices for a large-scale consumer app.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, performance, and reliability issues affecting the Android app.

Skills

Android engineering

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

MVVM/MVI

Dependency Injection

Performance & CI

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Job description

• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Paid volunteer time
• Health food and snacks
• Generous parental and family leave
• Learning and development
• Annual travel and experiences credit

A track record of delivering features from technical design through launch and iteration, with growing scope and independenceStrong communication and collaboration skills, and a habit of seeking and acting on feedback3+ years of professional Android engineering experience, including shipping features in a large-scale, production consumer appComfort operating with some ambiguity, including on a newly formed team establishing new surfaces for the first timeProficiency in Kotlin and modern Android architecture, including declarative UI (e.g., Jetpack Compose), unidirectional state management (MVI/MVVM), and dependency injectionExperience working with backend and other platform (iOS and web) engineers to integrate APIs and keep cross-platform experiences consistentSolid understanding of mobile app performance, accessibility, and release/CI practices for a large-scale consumer app