Staff Frontend Engineer, Search Feed

Airbnb’s Search Feed team is responsible for the core search product experience. The team works on business critical projects such as Airbnb Services, Guest Favorites, and reimagining the search experience using AI—our features are used by millions of people and bring in millions of dollars in annual revenue.

The team is highly collaborative with partners in design, product, and data science. We also work closely with other engineering teams that own ranking and personalization systems, and various platform teams that enable engineers to develop more effectively.

Additionally, we focus heavily on strengthening our technical foundation. Our work includes architecting scalable solutions that support our growing set of search features, addressing critical codebase pain points to boost developer productivity, and building robust infrastructure that enhance the performance and reliability of search features.

You will play a leading and impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users. You'll solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with our codebase. You'll also guide engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

• 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.

• 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. Experience with motion and prototyping is a big plus.
• 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.

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. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . 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.

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