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 DLS Foundation team has a deep history at Airbnb with contributions that date back to the inception of Airbnb’s Design Language System (DLS). The team is responsible for our design system building blocks - our core atomic components, layouts, and visual foundations - alongside the UI capabilities we provide to enable advanced visual effects, haptics that hundreds of client engineers at Airbnb leverage. As part of the larger UI Foundation team that contributes to Airbnb’s digital accessibility, Motion and UI tooling, we are involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch. As a central, cross-platform team consisting of Android, iOS, and Web engineers, we partner closely with Product Engineering, Design, and Product teams.
Responsibilities
- Enable Android engineers at Airbnb to build the best user experiences with DLS (Building Blocks and new UI capabilities) and UI Frameworks
- Evolve DLS with flexibility, practicality and long-term scalability in mind that fits Airbnb’s business needs
- Drive investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock new product innovation
- Identify Design and Engineer product development pain point and constantly improve the development efficiency
- Work alongside iOS and Frontend Web counterparts to deliver on shared objectives
- Support product engineers through community events, training materials, workshops, codelabs, etc.
- Contribute to the team’s technical strategy alongside leads to evolve technology choices that scale with Product and Design ambitions
- Level up technical leadership within the team through effective partnership with peer ICs and mentoring
Requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience developing consumer Android applications, and design systems at scale
- Expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners
- Passion for UI and Motion animation development, with attention to detail mindset
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with Figma and other design tools
Benefits
- Base pay range of $157,000—$180,600 USD
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity options
- Benefits package
- Employee Travel Credits
