<div>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.</div><div> 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:  <ul> <li>Work closely with product and design teams to design and develop key Trust &amp; Safety features on the Android app</li> <li>Work closely with iOS and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions such as the friction framework.</li> <li>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. </li> <li>Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks</li> <li>Participate in all phases of software development including architecture/design, implementation and testing.</li> <li>Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning</li> </ul>   Your Expertise: <ul> <li>6+ years industry experience in native Android development</li> <li>Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience </li> <li>Expertise in Kotlin or Java, Jetpack Compose, as well as knowledge of UI architecture and UI performance</li> <li>Experience in the Fraud/Trust domain is a plus. </li> <li>Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming</li> <li>Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces</li> <li>Strong cross-functional partnership skills and ability to independently lead projects from start to finish.</li> <li>Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem solving</li> <li>Proactive in upleveling yourself and others around you through curiosity, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.</li> </ul> </div>   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. <a href="https://careers.airbnb.com/">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.</a> 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 &amp; 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: <a href="mailto:reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com">reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com</a>. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.  We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.<div><div><div>How Well Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  </div><div>Pay Range</div><div>$191,000—$223,000 USD</div></div></div>