Senior Frontend Engineer, Guest & Host

Airbnb

7h•Remote

About The Position

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Reservations team is a full-stack product team that is responsible for building the most delightful traveling products for Guests and Hosts. As soon as a guest makes a booking, our product takes over to ensure guests have a 5 star experience staying with Airbnb. This includes the Trips Tab where a guest can find their Reservation Details, showing a timely Arrival Guide, managing co-travelers, getting reminders for upcoming reservations, finding check in instructions and generally other reservation management activities. Along with that we work on the Host product to ensure hosts can perform crucial tasks like respond to incoming reservation requests, make special offers, manage upcoming/active reservations and all other reservation management related tasks. The Reservation team’s work directly and materially impacts every Airbnb booker’s and host’s journey! Currently, the Reservations team is seeking a strong Web engineer who can drive product improvements, work cross functionally with PMs, Designers,Data Scientists and is passionate about owning and improving the foundation on which the products are built. We are a tightly knit team that thrives on trust and care for each other, allowing everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work. We expect an ideal candidate for this role to share these values and be excited to uplift the team’s culture in their own unique ways.

Requirements

6+ years engineering experience with a BS/Masters OR 2+ years with a PhD
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
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)
Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
Set and drive best practices for Web client development
Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense
Interest in innovations within the web community.

Nice To Haves

demonstrated design and UX sensibilities.

Responsibilities

Own key company level problem statements such as Improving Host Reservation Management. An engineer in this role should expect to contribute across the team on initiatives such as these.
Work closely with cross functional partners e.g. PMs along with Design, Data, and TPM will be key partners for someone in this role.
Identify, evaluate and execute opportunities to uplevel the Web foundation, finding ways to improve the developer experience, performance or maintainability of the code.
Uplift the team culture by participating and improving team processes.