Senior Frontend Engineer, Core Foundation

Job title: Senior Frontend Engineer, Core Foundation in USA at Airbnb Company: Airbnb Job description: The Community You Will Join:Our team, Core Foundation, is responsible for accelerating and simplifying the engineering process of building products for the end-to-end guest and host journey on Airbnb. We create the paved path product engineers use to build high quality and performant experiences.The Core Foundation engineers act as the bridge between Airbnb's Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams. We work closely with other engineers from product teams, by understanding their productivity pain points and how to resolve them in a scalable, simple and flexible way. We work with Data to create the paved path which product engineers use to get an understanding of how their surfaces are being used.The Difference You Will Make:As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be partnering with Product, Data, and Client Infrastructure teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of web technologies to lead and execute on building the paved path for Airbnb's current and future product needs. Your primary objective will be to elevate the performance and quality across all facets of our Desktop and Mobile Web experience for every guest and host.A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers' day to day flows.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing other's pull requests.
• Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create architecture design documents for new projects and review other's design documents.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise:We're looking for an Senior Frontend Engineer with passion for making the desktop and mobile web fast and easy to develop on, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' industry experience in Web Client / Product Foundation focuses.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...)
• Deep expertise of client-side and server-side performance considerations and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience with improving architecture and developer tooling/libraries of a high traffic website
• Strong collaboration with partner teams in a remote environment
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth

Your Location:This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: . Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. Expected salary: Location: USA Apply for the job now! Apply for this job