Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform

Airbnb

Staff Frontend Engineer developing client data and networking solutions for Airbnb. Collaborating with product teams and enhancing tooling for engineering best practices.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $204,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidGraphQLiOSTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved-path tooling and frameworks.
Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross-platform solutions.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of industry experience.
Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
Experience on a Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Productivity team at a medium to large engineering organization.
Strong engineering fundamentals, including a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for web client development.
Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.
Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonuses
Equity
Employee Travel Credits

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptGraphQLREST APIsasynchronous programmingperformance optimizationcaching strategiesclient storage solutionsweb client developmentinternal toolingCLI applications

Soft Skills

mentoringinfluencing engineering strategyshaping technical prioritiescollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationdriving best practicescross-functional teamworkadaptabilityleadership