Engineering Manager, Mobile Quality Engineering Job at Airbnb (São Paulo)

Engineering Manager, Mobile Quality Engineering

Airbnb

Location:
Brazil , São Paulo

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own the continuous improvement of Airbnb’s test automation tools, environments and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable, fault tolerant systems. As we establish a new engineering hub in Brazil, this team will anchor Airbnb’s growth in the region, focusing on foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable our global engineering teams to innovate faster. You will be joining during a defining phase—helping to shape a new office culture, establish best practices, and deliver technical impact that scales globally.

Job Responsibility:

Define and promote a quality mindset and strategy across the organization, by creating a vision that drives QE policies, programs and initiatives
Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers
empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity
Drive a sense of trust and belonging, and build inclusive teams with world class talent
Build and maintain our testing environments, testing data, and testing frameworks, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to analyze internal/external failures, and suggest corrective and preventive action
Use a data-based approach to help resolve internal quality issues to prevent defects in code shipment
Partner with global Infra leadership to execute the Brazil site’s technical roadmap
Drive excellence in technical design, reliability, scalability, and efficiency across projects
Collaborate cross-functionally with global teams to ensure alignment on architecture, tooling, and standards
Coach and mentor engineers, fostering career growth and a culture of continuous learning
Participate in recruiting, onboarding, and community-building efforts to scale the Brazil hub
Support the Site Lead in establishing operational rhythms and local engineering excellence

Requirements:

3+ years of engineering management
7+ years of industry experience with a strong focus on iOS and/or Android developer tooling, testing, or quality engineering
Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices
Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
Led projects with notable risk and complexity
develops the strategy for project execution
Proven experience leading distributed or regional engineering teams and driving technical outcomes
Skilled in mentoring engineers and creating strong team dynamics across cultural and geographic boundaries
Be an agent of change inside the organization and be comfortable leading through ambiguity
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align local execution to a global strategy
Fluent in English
Portuguese proficiency preferred

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Job Posted:
December 16, 2025

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