Frontend Software Engineer, Checkout

The Community You Will Join:

Checkout builds the bridge between guests and hosts — we’re a high-impact team focused on creating the next generation of our user experience that lets a guest book a stay or experience. We collaborate deeply with our cross-functional partners to design, build, and launch efficient, reliable, and ergonomic systems. We seek to drive innovative solutions that will enable us to revolutionize the travel experience and advance Airbnb’s mission. Our team thrives on strong judgment about data and a foundational appreciation for great design that we work to bring to our guests.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Checkout team, you will work on the development and refinement of major features within the web application that powers the booking checkout process at Airbnb. You will bring together your passion for great UX, your experience building performant and reliable web applications, your knowledge of patterns and practices in web development, and your track record of implementing these best practices — and you will play an important role in building the future of our software.

Our ideal candidate has an excellent eye for visual detail, pragmatic approach and a proactive  cross functional partnership with Design and Product. The candidate has an absolute commitment to quality, is very future-oriented in their implementation, and not afraid to propose new solutions.  If you are a fervent supporter of user needs and seek a role in a dynamic, teamwork-oriented setting, we invite you to reach out to us!

A Typical Day: 

• Work on checkout engineering projects to improve the end user experience, system reliability and performance.
• Write and review technical designs that solve open-ended technical problems without clearly-known solutions.
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners within our team, the larger organization, and our partners in teams such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions.
• Apply critical judgment to data — be it about performance, business metrics, or team processes — and use it to inform your work to improve the team and the product.
• Work with product managers and designers on delivering usable and reliable features.
• Implement platform best practices by keeping up to date with the larger web development community within the company.

Your Expertise:

• 2+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment, shipping consumer web applications at scale.
• Strong coding skills in Javascript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS, with a solid understanding of data structures and best practices around state management and data fetching using tools such as TanStack (React Query), Apollo, or GrapQL.
• Practical experience with modern web frameworks — React.js is preferred, but deep experience with Vue, SolidJS, Svelte, Angular, or any other modern framework is valued.
• Strong product sense and a passion for UI/UX, with a proven ability to translate vision into both prototypes and high-quality solutions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders.

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: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.