Web Engineer - DLS Foundation

The Community You Will Join:

DLS 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 UX. It does this through a number of ongoing projects, amongst which are the Design Language System (DLS) building blocks, UI tooling, Motion infrastructure and custom declarative UI frameworks built on Linaria, React, 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 DLS 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.

This is one of few teams at the company that provides its ICs with the opportunity to either go broad and influence all client-side development at Airbnb, or to go deep and improve the ways of working on a single platform. While the team leans senior, many of its members start in a more junior role and earn their promotions through the wide scope of the team's responsibilities.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Web engineer on the DLS Foundation team, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers on expanding the DLS Building Blocks, 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 be supported by a team of design and engineering managers, designers, and peers. The scope of this role is vast and limited only by your ambition.

You will be working to improve the overall process by which client-side engineers at the company translate designs into code. 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 new features. You will also work closely with designers on expanding and reinforcing processes of feature development from their perspective.

A Typical Day: 

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Design, 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

• Build efficient and reusable web UI infrastructure and architect reliable, performant, and scalable solutions

• Identify areas of improvement and drive web best practices

• Working closely with Web, Android and iOS engineers to develop foundational, cross platform solutions

• Improve client-side developer efficiency

• Support broader Airbnb Web community with a focus on UI and Motion

• Have direct contribution to Airbnb product building, but primary role is to improve general Airbnb UI and motion capability and enable product engineers to build.

Your Expertise:

• 2+ years of web engineering experience

• You possess strong passion for UI and Motion animation development

• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable Web frontend experiences using Javascript/Typescript

• Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript libraries and tooling (e.g. React)

• Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Design, and other Web, iOS, Android Engineers

• [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools

Your Location:

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. 

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