Airbnb Senior Frontend Engineer GraphQL & Networking Platform 

United States 

569926820

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions.
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings.
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Proven track record working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting medium to large engineering organizations.
• Excellent engineering and coding skills, with a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers and driving best practices for web client development.
• Motivation for personal growth and a commitment to learning new technologies to support the team’s evolving needs.
• Interest in innovations within the web industry and a passion for staying current with emerging trends.
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

Offices: United States