Staff Frontend Engineer
Core
Design and implement improvements to frontend infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks used by nearly every product team at Airbnb.
Role type
Staff Frontend Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
GraphQL runtime, client networking infrastructure, developer tooling, CLI applications, and cross-platform solutions.
Domain
Internet / Web Infrastructure / Developer Productivity
Required skills
TypeScript, GraphQL, REST APIs, client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, asynchronous programming, mentoring, engineering strategy
Preferred skills
agentic AI solutions
Technologies
TypeScript, GraphQL, REST, CLI
Responsibilities
Partner with product teams to understand pain points and pilot solutions; develop foundational cross-platform solutions with mobile engineers; collaborate with infrastructure teams; participate in full software development lifecycle from architecture to on-call.
Seniority
Staff, high-impact IC with strategic influence