Senior Frontend Engineer - Client Data & Networking Platform

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Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging.

travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality

5001 - 10000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Description

• The Client Data & Networking Platform’s mission is to develop the client networking libraries, frameworks, best practices and tools that empower engineers at Airbnb to build fast and reliable data-dependent features with high velocity and quality. • The team owns Airbnb’s in-house front end API client supporting REST and GraphQL used by nearly all of Airbnb’s teams and users. • Our team educates engineers across the organization, shaping the paved path, best practices and influencing the engineering culture • 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

• 6+ years industry experience • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience • Extensive experience working with TypeScript, Web Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs • Experience working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization • Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming • Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for Web client development) • Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs • Interest in innovations within the web industry

Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.