# Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $204k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, GraphQL, REST APIs, Client Networking, Performance Optimization, Caching Strategies, Client Storage, Asynchronous Programming, Cli Tools, Agentic AI
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Staff Frontend Engineer building and improving Airbnb's client data layer, GraphQL runtime, networking infrastructure, and developer tooling used by all product teams. Requires 10+ years experience with TypeScript, GraphQL/REST, client performance, and platform/infrastructure team background.

## Job Description

## 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.

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