Staff Web Engineer, UI Foundation

The Community You Will Join:

The UI Foundation team is responsible for empowering designers and engineers to create industry-leading, innovative, and inclusive user experiences (UX) for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts. We offer capabilities and domain expertise in design systems, notably Airbnb's Design Language System (DLS), motion innovation such as Lottie, digital accessibility, and tooling to accelerate UI development.

As a central, cross-platform team consisting of Android, iOS, and Web engineers, we partner closely with Product Engineering, Design, and Product teams. We are involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch. Check out some of the team’s recent contributions:

• Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
• Animations: Bringing the Host Passport to Life on iOS
• Making Airbnb’s Android app more accessible

The Difference You Will Make:

• Drive foundational investments across DLS, Digital Accessibility, and UI Tooling on the UI Foundation team.
• Partner closely with Design, Product, and Marketing partners to enable their creative ambitions; develop generalized, flexible solutions to facilitate in making the design concepts a reality.
• Strengthen the relationship with Product Engineering teams that rely on the technologies and expertise provided by the team.
• Elevate modern frontend web skills and practices for pushing the envelope on animations, interactions, and accessible designs.
• Identify opportunities and solutions to simplify the frontend web stack and UI architecture, including addressing technical debt in collaboration with the greater Airbnb web community.
• Work with industry partners (e.g. Google, Apple) and web standards communities to advance new UI capabilities.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of industry and web development experience.
• Strong expertise building and maintaining high-performance, accessible, and scalable frontend web experiences.
• Extensive experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue, or Meteor.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Preferred experience with design systems, digital accessibility, and motion/interaction.
• Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration with designers and client (Android, iOS, web) engineers.

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.