Airbnb Senior Frontend Engineer Guest Displays & Platforms 

United States 

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The Community You Will Join:

As a Senior Frontend Web Engineer in Guest Displays & Platforms, you’ll help lead the development and refinement of major new features at the heart of the guest experience on Airbnb. This includes reconciling new features with existing functionality, working closely with designers to shape desired product goals into a feasible and viable guest user experience, and last but not least, identifying underlying patterns and abstractions to help increase developer velocity while maintaining technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb guest experience.

The Difference You Will Make

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience building consumer web applications at scale.
• Enough backend system expertise to steer discussions and find the right tradeoffs for frontend-backend split of responsibilities.
• Strong expertise in the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript.
• Extensive experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.
• Deep understanding of frontend architecture and improving build processes (npm, yarn, webpack, parcel)
• An understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences
• Bachelors degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent industry experience.

Offices: United States