Staff Frontend Engineer, Search Feed

Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer for their Search Feed team. This role involves building world-class search experiences, solving architectural challenges, and mentoring team members while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities:

• Give early directional feedback to stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of large and complex features
• Prototype new features to collect feedback, uncover technical challenges, and iterate with design and product partners to reach ideal product solutions
• Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on the product
• Identify areas of codebase for architectural improvements, and drive a proposal to address them in service of creating performant, reliable and scalable solutions
• Deliver the technical design or implementation of a key foundational initiative to enable multiple features and products on Airbnb’s Search product surfaces
• Review technical designs or code reviews from partner engineering teams building features on Airbnb’s Search product surfaces, enabling them to move fast while guiding them on best practices
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of a team member

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience developing web applications at scale with a large customer base
• Expertise in building and maintaining performant and scalable consumer web applications, ideally using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
• A strong passion for frontend development with depth and breadth in frontend architecture and component design best practices, client performance, a11y, and styling
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross functional partners and across engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present tradeoffs and iterate towards ideal solutions
• Adaptability and flexible mindset to embrace changing priorities, and willingness to shift focus between building new product experiences and driving improvements to our technical foundations
• Passionate about technical quality
• Strong collaborator in code reviews and architecture discussions, and motivated to improve the team's productivity
• Advocate of continuous learning and keeping up with innovations in the frontend industry
• Experience with motion and prototyping is a big plus