Frontend Software Engineer, Airbnb
Hosting Services
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years’ experience developing Web applications at scale with a high volume of users
- Strong expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable Web frontend experiences using Javascript/Typescript
- Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, graphql)
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
- You possess strong product sense and a passion for UX product development
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other iOS, Android, and Web Engineers
- [Bonus] Experience with animation libraries
- You should have a growing expertise in front-end engineering but also be versatile
- We use the latest front-end technologies (ReactJS, GraphQL), and you must be value-driven and product-oriented
What the job involves
- We are building a new set of tools to make it easier for people to connect and host on Airbnb
- Our team focuses specifically on co-hosting and ways to make it easier for people to host together as a team
- 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, performance, robustness, and quality
- 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, data science, data engineering, UX and numerous platform teams within Airbnb
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Design and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on web
- Build efficient and reusable web components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable solutions
- Identify areas of improvement and drive web best practices
- Working closely with Android and iOS engineers to develop foundational, cross platform solutions
- Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors
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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