[Hiring] Staff Frontend Engineer, Search Feed @Airbnb

Role Description

The team you will join:

• Airbnb’s Search Feed team is responsible for the core search product experience.
• Works on business critical projects such as Airbnb Services, Guest Favorites, and reimagining the search experience using AI.
• Collaborates with partners in design, product, and data science.
• Focuses on strengthening technical foundations by architecting scalable solutions and addressing critical codebase pain points.

The difference you will make:

• Play a leading and impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users.
• Solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with the codebase.
• Guide engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

On a typical day, you might:

• Give early directional feedback to stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of large and complex features.
• Prototype new features to collect feedback, uncover technical challenges, and iterate with design and product partners.
• Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on the product.
• Identify areas of codebase for architectural improvements and drive proposals to address them.
• Deliver the technical design or implementation of a key foundational initiative.
• Review technical designs or code reviews from partner engineering teams.
• Mentor, guide, advocate, and support the career growth of a team member.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience developing web applications at scale with a large customer base.
• Expertise in building and maintaining performant and scalable consumer web applications, ideally using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Strong passion for frontend development with depth in frontend architecture and component design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners and across engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present tradeoffs and iterate towards ideal solutions.
• Adaptability and flexible mindset to embrace changing priorities.
• Passionate about technical quality and motivated to improve the team's productivity.
• Advocate of continuous learning and keeping up with innovations in the frontend industry.

Requirements

• Experience with motion and prototyping is a big plus.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $204,000 — $255,000 USD.
• Role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Description

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services, and solutions.

We strive to provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation, please contact us.