Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Web Engineer

Summary

Join the UI Foundation team at Airbnb as a Staff Web Engineer and contribute to building out new UI frameworks and utilities used by other client-side engineers. You will have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers and designers on the next generation of our Design System, supporting new product launches and leading continuous improvements to the overall process by which client-side engineers translate designs into code.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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