Staff Web Engineer, Airbnb
Digital Accessibility
$204-260k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$204-260k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of industry experience
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related web technologies
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, Typescript)
- Experience writing code that meets accessibility standards and best practices such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Knowledge on practical usage of WAI-ARIA (and when not to leverage it)
- Knowledge of assistive technologies, such as VoiceOver, JAWS or NVDA
- Passion for building and helping others build accessible UIs and experiences
- Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals as relevant to building web apps and experiences
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal
- Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
What the job involves
- At Airbnb, we aim to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Core to this mission is the accessibility of our product
- This means that we should be consciously designing and building our product to support people with disabilities
- The Digital Accessibility team works closely with Product Engineering, QA, Design, and Product Marketing teams to develop solutions that enable more inclusive user experiences
- As part of the larger UI Foundation team that contributes to Airbnb’s design system and UI tooling, we are involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch
- This is a unique opportunity to meaningfully elevate the digital accessibility of Airbnb on Web for millions of guests and hosts
- To scale accessibility coding practices, you will build technical solutions that range from tooling to foundational capabilities
- While most of your time will involve hands-on development, you will also contribute to educational resources and mentoring other Web engineers on accessibility best practices
- Lead defining and building tooling and process for accessible product development
- Lead accessibility training and support for engineers
- Integrate and support automated accessibility testing and tooling
- Integrate accessibility best practices for the whole company, including in our Design System, by collaborating with engineers and cross functional partners: designers, product and program managers
- Guide accessibility improvement projects spanning multiple teams
- Work with leadership on promoting and solving accessibility at every stage of the project development lifecycle
- Help address accessibility bugs and enable other teams to conduct remediation initiatives
- Participate in code reviews
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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