Senior Frontend Engineer, GraphQL & Networking Platform

About Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

The Client Data & Networking Platform team empowers Airbnb engineers to build fast, reliable, and data-rich features at scale. We develop and maintain front-end API clients, frameworks, and tools that enable engineers to efficiently build data-driven features, and are relied upon by nearly every product team at Airbnb. Through organization-wide education, clear guidance on best practices, and a commitment to technical excellence, the team plays an integral role in fostering a culture of innovation across Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, GraphQL & Networking Platform on the team, you will shape the foundations that enable product engineers across Airbnb to deliver fast, data-rich, and reliable user experiences. In close collaboration with product engineers, you will gain a deep understanding of their challenges and priorities, and use these insights to design and implement improvements to infrastructure and tooling that have a meaningful impact on the way teams build and deliver products.

A Typical Day

• 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.

Your Expertise

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Proven track record working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting medium to large engineering organizations.
• Excellent engineering and coding skills, with a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers and driving best practices for web client development.
• Motivation for personal growth and a commitment to learning new technologies to support the team’s evolving needs.
• Interest in innovations within the web industry and a passion for staying current with emerging trends.
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.

How We'll Take Care Of You

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$191,000—$223,000 USD

Key skills/competency

• Frontend Development
• GraphQL
• Client Networking
• TypeScript
• Performance Optimization
• Caching Strategies
• API Integration
• Platform Engineering
• Asynchronous Programming
• Mentorship