Android Software Engineer, Trust Experience

The Community You Will Join:

Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. The Trust team is responsible for protecting our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. Trust Platform is responsible for foundational systems that power the detection and mitigation of fraud at scale across Airbnb, such as the rules engine, friction framework, and vendor API gateway, and supports one of the highest throughput systems across the company. The team works closely with the Trust defense teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks, and build platform features to enable Trust product teams to quickly build frictions, rules, and enforcement tools for agents.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Android Software Engineer, your expertise will be pivotal in developing and evolving the trust and safety defenses on the Android application. You will work closely with a team of cross-platform engineers with collective expertise in web, native, and backend development to define and shape the future of the friction framework with initiatives such as Airlock. The friction framework is used by Airbnb engineering teams to build frictions, and is pivotal in protecting our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our millions of hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards.

A Typical Day: 

• Work closely with product and design teams to design and develop key Trust & Safety features on the Android app
• Work closely with iOS and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions such as the friction framework.
• Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality. 
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
• Participate in all phases of software development including architecture/design, implementation and testing.
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning

Your Expertise:

• 2-5 years industry experience in native Android development
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience 
• Created and maintained Android libraries/SDKs that are consumed by other Android engineers.
• Experience in the Fraud/Trust domain is a plus. 
• Extensive experience working with Kotlin, Android Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs
• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with Compose, testing frameworks, 3rd party SDK’s, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.
• [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs

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. 

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