Staff Web Engineer, UI Foundation

The Community You Will Join:

UI Foundation is a central, cross-platform team at Airbnb responsible for improving client-side engineering efficiency, quality, and capabilities that enable product teams to build a premium quality, modern, fresh, and design-rich UI. The team empowers product engineers by building capabilities such as the Design Language System (DLS) building blocks, UI Tooling, Motion infrastructure, accessible patterns, and custom declarative UI frameworks built on React, Linaria, SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose. In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence how UI engineering is done at the company level and to support the efforts of hundreds of other engineers.

The UI Foundation team works in all stages of the product development lifecycle, aids in product launches, and works closely with the Design organization on new UI initiatives. It sits under the Client Foundation organization whose scope is to standardize and accelerate the overall feature development process from a client engineering perspective.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Web engineer on the UI Foundation team, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers and designers on the next generation of our Design System, building out new UI frameworks and utilities used by other client-side engineers, and supporting new product launches by embedding yourself into product initiatives. 

You will need to have a Design-centric approach, coupled with a rigorous engineering mindset. You will be expected to go deep in Web Design Engineering, and align on architecture and principles with your cross-platform peers.

You will be supported by a team of Design and Engineering managers, designers, and peer engineers. The scope of this role is vast and limited only by your ambition.

You will be leading the continuous improvements to the overall process by which client-side engineers translate designs into code, at scale. In this role you will work closely with other engineers on Web, Android and iOS in building out systems and solutions that facilitate the overall engineering process of building new features.  

A Typical Day: 

• Build efficient and reusable web UI infrastructure and architect reliable, performant, accessible and scalable solutions
• Drive Technical strategy for UI development, including: identify areas of improvement and improve Web best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Designers and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality Motion animation and UI frameworks
• Explore new Motion animation technologies to enhance general UI capability and meet Airbnb UI standard
• Working closely with Web, Android and iOS engineers to develop foundational, cross platform solutions. Sometimes as a lead, sometimes as a peer.
• Scale impact through teaching, making presentations, peer programming and code/design reviews
• Improve client-side developer efficiency
• Support broader Airbnb Web community with a focus on UI and Motion
• Make occasional direct contributions to Airbnb product, but this is not the primary role

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of web engineering experience
• Strong expertise building and maintaining high-performance, accessible and scalable Web frontend experiences using Javascript/Typescript
• Deep experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React), with under-the-hood understanding
• Demonstrated expertise of UI and Motion animation development
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Experience working with Design Systems
• Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence, design, UX and product sense
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone, navigate ambiguity and show motivation for personal growth
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated ability to design and advocate for a technical roadmap, as a strategy and prioritization exercise
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with designers, and other Web, iOS, Android Engineers
• [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools

Your Location: Remote- USA

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.

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.