Senior Frontend Engineer, GraphQL & Networking Platform

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts. The Senior Frontend Engineer will work on the Client Data & Networking Platform team to develop and maintain front-end API clients and tools, enabling product engineers to deliver fast, data-rich, and reliable user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call

Requirements:

• 8+ years of industry experience
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs
• Proven track record working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting medium to large engineering organizations
• Excellent engineering and coding skills, with a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers and driving best practices for web client development
• Motivation for personal growth and a commitment to learning new technologies to support the team's evolving needs
• Interest in innovations within the web industry and a passion for staying current with emerging trends
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications
• Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus