Senior Frontend Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- You should have a deep expertise in front-end engineering but also be versatile
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong expertise in the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- 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
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, tech
- Independent, dedicated, and able to deliver ‘production ready’ code with minimal guidance
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations
What the job involves
- As part of the team and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco, you will focus on elevating this project from regional to global
- You’ll have the opportunity to work on exciting, innovative and technically challenging work, supporting a major company strategy while finding solutions in areas such as UX, performances, robustness and quality
- We use the latest front-end technologies (ReactJS, GraphQL), and you must be value-driven and product-oriented
- Each engineer owns the feature they are building and is responsible for turning it into reality, and we will need your front-end expertise to find solutions to problems and challenges and deliver on roadmap objectives
- Launching and expanding our co-hosting product across global markets
- Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout
- Collaborate with product, engineering, design, data engineering, UX and numerous platform teams within Airbnb
- Refining the features with our Product Team, resolving product trade-offs
- Designing features and planning its integration directly into production
- Developing features iteratively during AGILE sprints
- Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code
- Pushing to production multiple times per day (heavy use of feature toggling)
- Acting on user feedback to turn the feature into perfection
Salary benchmarks
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 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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