Senior Software Engineer [Frontend] - HotelTonight
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.
About HotelTonight
Launched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.
About Hotels at AirbnbLaunched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.
HotelTonight is a part of the Airbnb family. The hotels team at Airbnb is responsible for taking HotelTonight into new directions and scale. The Airbnb platform also has hotel listings and the hotels team develops systems that help the Airbnb ecosystem have a wide selection of accommodation choices for our guests and the most effective tools for hosts to onboard, manage and thrive on Airbnb.
About the RoleWe are looking for a senior web engineer. You should have a deep expertise in front-end engineering. You must be value-driven and product-oriented. You will end up having significant influence on both hotel facing and guest facing web surfaces for HotelTonight and Airbnb. You should be able to partner with technical peers to shape the architecture of our front end systems and with designers and product managers to make our web surfaces a delight to use.
Responsibilities- Refining the features with our Product Team, resolving product trade-offs.
- Designing features and planning its integration directly into production.
- Developing features iteratively during AGILE sprints.
- Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code.
- Pushing to production multiple times per day (heavy use of feature toggling).
- Acting on user feedback to turn the feature into perfection.
- Collaborate with the team in USA and Germany
- 7+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience developing for the Web.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, and technical quality.
- Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally.
- Strong collaboration via code reviews and architecture discussions, and motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
- Experience working on a product engineering team or customer-centric platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization.
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.
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