Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform

Responsibilities

• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved-path tooling and frameworks.
• Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross-platform solutions.
• 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.
• Design and implement improvements to infrastructure and tooling that empower engineers to build fast, reliable, and data-rich features at scale.
• Mentor and grow engineers across the organization and drive best practices for web client development.
• Influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.
• Develop internal tooling and CLI applications.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Experience on a Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Productivity team at a medium to large engineering organization.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for web client development.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.

Nice-to-Haves

• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications.
• Experience building agentic AI solutions.