Staff Frontend Engineer, Airbnb
Search Feed
$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- A strong passion for frontend development with depth and breadth in frontend architecture and component design best practices, client performance, a11y, and styling. Experience with motion and prototyping is a big plus
- 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, and willingness to shift focus between building new product experiences and driving improvements to our technical foundations
- Passionate about technical quality. Strong collaborator in code reviews and architecture discussions, and motivated to improve the team's productivity
- Advocate of continuous learning and keeping up with innovations in the frontend industry
What the job involves
- Airbnb’s Search Feed team is responsible for the core search product experience
- The team works on business critical projects such as Airbnb Services, Guest Favorites, and reimagining the search experience using AI—our features are used by millions of people and bring in millions of dollars in annual revenue
- The team is highly collaborative with partners in design, product, and data science
- We also work closely with other engineering teams that own ranking and personalization systems, and various platform teams that enable engineers to develop more effectively
- Additionally, we focus heavily on strengthening our technical foundation
- Our work includes architecting scalable solutions that support our growing set of search features, addressing critical codebase pain points to boost developer productivity, and building robust infrastructure that enhance the performance and reliability of search features
- You will play a leading and impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users
- You'll solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with our codebase
- You'll also guide engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
- 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 to reach ideal product solutions
- Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on the product
- Identify areas of codebase for architectural improvements, and drive a proposal to address them in service of creating performant, reliable and scalable solutions
- Deliver the technical design or implementation of a key foundational initiative to enable multiple features and products on Airbnb’s Search product surfaces
- Review technical designs or code reviews from partner engineering teams building features on Airbnb’s Search product surfaces, enabling them to move fast while guiding them on best practices
- Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of a team member
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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