Airbnb Staff Web Engineer UI Foundation 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Web engineer on the UI Foundation team, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers and designers on the next generation of our Design System, building out new UI frameworks and utilities used by other client-side engineers, and supporting new product launches by embedding yourself into product initiatives.

You will need to have a Design-centric approach, coupled with a rigorous engineering mindset. You will be expected to go deep in Web Design Engineering, and align on architecture and principles with your cross-platform peers.

You will be supported by a team of Design and Engineering managers, designers, and peer engineers. The scope of this role is vast and limited only by your ambition.

You will be leading the continuous improvements to the overall process by which client-side engineers translate designs into code, at scale. In this role you will work closely with other engineers on Web, Android and iOS in building out systems and solutions that facilitate the overall engineering process of building new features.

A Typical Day:

• Build efficient and reusable web UI infrastructure and architect reliable, performant, accessible and scalable solutions
• Drive Technical strategy for UI development, including: identify areas of improvement and improve Web best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Designers and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality Motion animation and UI frameworks
• Explore new Motion animation technologies to enhance general UI capability and meet Airbnb UI standard
• Working closely with Web, Android and iOS engineers to develop foundational, cross platform solutions. Sometimes as a lead, sometimes as a peer.
• Scale impact through teaching, making presentations, peer programming and code/design reviews
• Improve client-side developer efficiency
• Support broader Airbnb Web community with a focus on UI and Motion
• Make occasional direct contributions to Airbnb product, but this is not the primary role

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of web engineering experience
• Strong expertise building and maintaining high-performance, accessible and scalable Web frontend experiences using Javascript/Typescript
• Deep experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React), with under-the-hood understanding
• Demonstrated expertise of UI and Motion animation development
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Experience working with Design Systems
• Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence, design, UX and product sense
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone, navigate ambiguity and show motivation for personal growth
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated ability to design and advocate for a technical roadmap, as a strategy and prioritization exercise
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with designers, and other Web, iOS, Android Engineers
• [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools