Senior Android Performance Engineer, Core Foundation

The Community You Will Join

Our team, Core Foundation, is responsible for accelerating and simplifying the engineering process of building products for the end-to-end guest and host journey on Airbnb. We create the paved path product engineers use to build high quality and performant experiences.

The Core Foundation engineers act as the bridge between Airbnb's Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams. We work closely with other engineers from product teams, by understanding their productivity pain points and how to resolve them in a scalable, simple and flexible way. We work with Data to create the paved path which product engineers use to get an understanding of how their surfaces are being used. 

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Android Engineer focusing on Performance, you will be partnering with Product teams and Client Infrastructure teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of Android’s internal workings to optimize resource management. Your primary objective will be to elevate the performance and quality of the client experience for all users across the world.

The Typical Day

• Take an active role in leading your projects through pull requests, code reviews, and managing milestones and deliverables.
• Collaborate with partner teams to design and develop high quality libraries that improve resource usage and runtime performance.
• Design and execute on a rollout strategy that reduces risk and reduces adoption barriers.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Android development and performance engineering.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s.

Your Expertise

We’re looking for a Senior Android Software Engineer with passion for making the client experience performant through foundational frameworks and tooling, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years industry experience with client runtime performance
• Fluency in Kotlin
• Understanding of Jetpack Compose and declarative patterns
• Experience building codegen tools, codemods, and lint rules
• Deep understanding of Android core libraries, memory management, coroutines and concurrency, and networking
• Experience using Android profiling tools such as systrace and Perfectto
• Expertise of device and environmental performance considerations
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems at Airbnb
• Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
• Understanding of low end device concerns