Manager, Engineering - Web Platform

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

The Web Platform’s mission is to empower engineers at Airbnb working within our Typescript monorepo to deliver innovative features with high velocity and quality by providing foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release. With a focus on web-specific technologies and integrations, the team serves as a nexus between product engineers and platform-agnostic infrastructure teams, as well as shaping and ensuring the health of the codebase itself. 

The broader surface area of the team includes things like testing frameworks, developer environments, bundler and build system implementations, CI jobs, client libraries for observability, editor integrations, and an internal web service framework. Projects on this team directly impact the productivity and experience of Airbnb developers working on web code.

The Difference You Will Make:

As the manager of the Web Platform team you will partner with tech leads to shape the team’s strategy and deliver projects that improve the productivity of Airbnb’s 400+ web engineers. You can read about some of the team’s work on the Airbnb Tech Blog:

• Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale
• How Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React
• Faster JavaScript Builds with Metro
• ts-migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale

A Typical Day: 

• Prioritizing projects across stakeholders and scope to deliver impact to our web engineering community
• Fostering relationships with partner teams and stakeholders
• Collaborating with other platform teams on shared projects / principles
• Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles and responsibilities
• Partnering with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs and designing strategy
• Creating deliberate plans and opportunities to systematically address technical debt and improve code quality
• Contributing to the broader organization’s culture and processes with a “first team” mentality

Your Expertise:

• 2+ years of experience as a full-time manager
• Experience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally …