Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's DLS Foundation team as a Frontend Web Engineer and contribute to the evolution of their Design Language System (DLS). You will collaborate with world-class engineers to expand DLS building blocks, build new UI frameworks, and support new product launches. This role involves improving the process by which client-side engineers translate designs into code, working closely with engineers across Web, Android, and iOS platforms, and collaborating with designers to enhance feature development processes. The position offers a significant impact on all Airbnb product features and teams, requiring a focus on stability and safety in system updates. You will work on improving the overall process by which client-side engineers at the company translate designs into code. You will also work closely with designers on expanding and reinforcing processes of feature development from their perspective. The role and responsibility involves a massive blast radius on all Airbnb product features and teams.

Requirements

• 2+ years of industry experience developing consumer Web applications, and design systems at scale
• Expertise using Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React)
• Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners
• You possess passion for UI and Motion animation development, with attention to detail mindset

Responsibilities

• Enable Web engineers at Airbnb to build the best user experiences with DLS (Building Blocks and new UI capabilities) and UI Frameworks (E.g. React, Atomic CSS)
• Evolve DLS with flexibility, practicality and long-term scalability in mind that fits Airbnb’s business needs
• Drive investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock new product innovation
• Identify Design and Engineer product development pain point and constantly improve the development efficiency
• Work alongside iOS and Android counterparts to deliver on shared objectives
• Support product engineers through community events,  training materials, workshops, codelabs, etc
• Contribute to the team’s technical strategy alongside leads to evolve technology choices that scale with Product and Design ambitions
• Level up technical leadership within the team through effective partnership with peer ICs and mentoring

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with Figma and other design tools

Benefits

Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits