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Staff Software Engineer (UI Tooling)

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Summary

Staff Software Engineer on Airbnb's UI Tooling team leading Kyber, a prototyping and rapid deployment platform. Responsible for rebuilding Kyber on next-gen cloud platforms, evolving capabilities for product development, integrating into ecosystem, setting technical direction, writing/reviewing code with AI agents, and mentoring engineers.

  • As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Tooling team, you will lead our prototyping and rapid deployment platform, Kyber. You will drive implementation, maintenance, and scaling of a system that supports thousands of internal projects and users and enables non-technical builders to express ideas across all of our product surface areas
  • You will own the strategy and execution across 3 key areas:
  • Rebuild Kyber onto our next-generation cloud platforms
  • Evolve Kyber capabilities to support product development process
  • Integrate Kyber into our ecosystem supporting prototyping workflows
  • Setting technical direction for the Kyber platform, making architectural decisions for the systems that enable rapid deployment of internal applications and product feature prototypes
  • Write and review code hands-on and with AI coding agents, establishing and demonstrating standards for quality, availability and system health across the platform
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design to translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities
  • Advance the capabilities for Product Managers, Designers, and other non-technical builders to build rich product feature prototypes that translate to features in our production applications
  • Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier, leveling up the team through design reviews, technical guidance, and a collaborative, inclusive culture

Benefits

  • Paid volunteer time
  • Health food and snacks
  • Generous parental and family leave
  • Learning and development
  • Annual travel and experiences credit
  • Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership
  • 9+ years of industry experience, ideally within fast-paced environments, with a track record of delivering large-scale service oriented systems
  • Sound technical judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability and long-term engineering quality
  • A product-first engineering mindset, with an understanding that technical decisions are in service of the products we provide to our customers
  • Broad full-stack engineering capability, with the confidence to work across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and system architecture as technical challenges require
  • Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms and reliable integrations
  • End-to-end product ownership, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes

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