Manager, Engineering - Web Platform

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 multiple) and Senior engineers 
• Experience managing a remote/distributed team
• Familiarity with, and interest in, best practices for developer productivity
• Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between [X] and [Y]. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

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. 

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.