Senior Web UX Engineer, Airbnb
Launch and Product Marketing
$185-223k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-223k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience, or 2-4+ years with an advanced degree
- Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- Expertise Implementing animations using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for web
- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Driving adoption of industry standards for building user interface including accessibility, internationalization, performance optimization, SEO, cross-browser compatibility, caching
- Experience scaling and architecting CSS across multiple projects and products
- Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences
What the job involves
- The Launch and Product Marketing team is a newly established team that builds impactful launch and product marketing pages for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts. The Senior Web UX Engineer joining this team will be crucial in leading the full lifecycle of new launch and product marketing projects
- This role involves working closely with Design partners to quickly brainstorm, prototype, develop, and deploy innovative animated experiences
- The team is part of the Client Products & Emerging Tech organization, which is responsible for building impactful product features for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts with new and existing technologies, as well as horizontal components such as navigation that aim to provide a cohesive user experience
- Explore, shape, and develop new launch and product marketing experiences alongside cross-functional partners (Creative, Design, MarTech and Product); from ideation to implementation at scale
- Lead launch and product marketing projects that emphasize responsive and dynamic motion experiences
- Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture
- Passion for creative iteration, partnership and a sensitivity for achieving pixel perfect, elegant design
- Implement animations using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for web-based projects
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
- Partner with MarTech and other engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product
- Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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