Senior Web Software Engineer, Airbnb
Prototyping, 12 Month Contract
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of experience in a hands-on web development role, particularly front-end development
- Expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript
- Experience building custom interactions, complex animations, and novel user interface components
- Strong communication skills and experience working closely with designers and product managers
- [Bonus] Prior experience in a prototyping role
What the job involves
- The Engineering Prototyping team works closely with partners from Design, Product, and Engineering across Airbnb’s product portfolio
- We help teams identify key questions and build software prototypes that answer them
- Our work scales from focused explorations that help solve key design or feasibility questions to broad explorations that help validate ideas for new features and capabilities
- The team is small but capable: we build prototypes for iOS, Android, and the web, and our work includes prototyping for major released features
- As a web prototyper, you will help answer questions by building prototypes for the web
- The types of questions you might help answer will vary widely, from “is this possible?” to “is this a good user experience?” to “does this have strategic value for the company?”
- Your prototypes will help answer these questions by demonstrating technical feasibility, suggesting implementation approaches, enabling user studies, and more
- Those answers will in turn enable leadership to make critical and strategic business decisions
- As a web prototyper, you will create prototypes that enable differentiating and industry-leading product enhancements and introduce the application of advanced and emerging technologies
- Meet with product managers, designers, and engineers to talk through the challenges they face and identify key questions that can be answered through prototyping
- Choose an appropriate balance between speed and realism that will enable your prototypes to provide answers with sufficient confidence as quickly as possible
- Build APIs that provide data from backend systems for use in your own and in iOS and Android prototypes
- Present your prototypes to leadership and discuss the benefits, costs, and other trade offs uncovered through your work
- Work with leadership to address open questions and challenges identified through prototyping and iterate toward more refined solutions
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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