As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be partnering with Product, Data, and Client Infrastructure teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of web technologies to lead and execute on building the paved path for Airbnb’s current and future product needs. Your primary objective will be to elevate the performance and quality across all facets of our Desktop and Mobile Web experience for every guest and host.

A Typical Day

Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that complement product engineers’ day to day flows.
Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing others’ pull requests.
Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
Create architecture design documents for new projects and review others’ design documents.
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with a passion for making the desktop and mobile web fast and easy to develop on, 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 in Web Client / Product Foundation focuses.
Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies.
Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...).
Deep expertise of client-side and server-side performance considerations and cross-browser compatibility issues.
Experience with improving architecture and developer tooling/libraries of a high traffic website.
Strong collaboration with partner teams in a remote environment.
Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points.
Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and asynchronous programming.
Strong communication and organizational skills.
Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth.