Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Client Media Foundation team as a Senior Frontend Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in developing and optimizing media solutions for Airbnb's web frontend products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design, develop, and refine media features, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Your expertise in media-related technologies and React, Typescript, and other web technologies will be crucial. You will also mentor team members and stay updated on industry trends. This US-remote eligible position offers a competitive salary and potential for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. The role requires 5-9+ years of experience in web/full-stack development with a strong focus on media technologies.

Requirements

• 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!

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits