Senior Frontend Engineer, Guest & Host

Role overview

Airbnb’s Reservations team (Guest & Host) is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to improve traveling experiences for both guests and hosts. The team builds key reservation and trip surfaces, including reservation details, arrival guidance, reminders, co-traveler management, and host reservation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own key company-level problem statements, such as improving Host Reservation Management.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with PMs, Designers, Data Scientists, and TPMs.
• Uplift the Web foundation by improving:
  • developer experience (DX)
  • performance
  • maintainability
• Contribute to team processes and culture by participating in and improving how the team works.
• Deliver product outcomes end-to-end, including planning/scoping, implementation, and experimentation such as A/B testing.

Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience (BS/Masters preferred) or 2+ years with a PhD; CS or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with modern web frameworks such as React (and/or other listed frameworks: Preact, Angular, Next, Vue, Meteor).
• Deep understanding of frontend architecture and improving build processes (e.g., npm, yarn, webpack, parcel).
• Strong product mindset: delivering end-to-end from ideation and scoping through implementation and experimental A/B testing.
• Ability to set and drive best practices for web client development.
• Portfolio/personal projects demonstrating technical excellence and product sense.
• Interest in innovations within the web community.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities.

Location / remote

• US Remote Eligible (may require occasional office work or offsites as agreed with your manager).
• Must live in a US state where Airbnb has a registered entity (with an excluded-state list).