Airbnb Senior Frontend Engineer Client Media Foundation 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

You will also work closely with feature teams across the company to enable more intuitive, faster, and beautiful guest and host-facing product experiences. If you have a product-oriented mindset and love to live at the intersection of product and platform, this role is for you.

A Typical Day:

• Design, develop, and refine media-related features for Airbnb on the web, ensuring high-quality and performant user experiences
• Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb, understanding their productivity and feature pain points and building media solutions to resolve them scalably and flexibly.
• Partner with designers, working collaboratively to provide and receive constructive feedback towards beautiful and performant media products.
• Continuously optimize and improve the performance and reliability of existing media infrastructure.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and media processing
• Mentor and guide team members in their career development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth

Your Expertise:

• 5-9+ years of experience in Web / full-stack development, with a strong focus on media-related technologies (e.g. media processing libraries / frameworks, media players, formats, codecs, knowledge of industry standards and best practices for media encoding and compression), and a passion for creating engaging user experiences through media.
• Strong expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable Web frontend experiences using React, Typescript, Signals, HTML, and CSS
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• An overwhelming desire and curiosity to learn!

Offices: United States