Senior Frontend Engineer, Airbnb
Guest Displays & Platforms
$185-223k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$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 industry experience building consumer web applications at scale
- Enough backend system expertise to steer discussions and find the right tradeoffs for frontend-backend split of responsibilities
- Strong expertise in the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- Extensive experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor
- Deep understanding of frontend architecture and improving build processes (npm, yarn, webpack, parcel)
- An understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences
- Bachelors degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent industry experience
What the job involves
- The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) that brings together all the listing details, and anchors the guest booking flow as well as guest pricing and availability across all Airbnb product surfaces
- As a Senior Frontend Web Engineer in Guest Displays & Platforms, you’ll help lead the development and refinement of major new features at the heart of the guest experience on Airbnb
- This includes reconciling new features with existing functionality, working closely with designers to shape desired product goals into a feasible and viable guest user experience, and last but not least, identifying underlying patterns and abstractions to help increase developer velocity while maintaining technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb guest experience
- Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
- Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
- Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
- Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others
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.
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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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