Frontend Tech Lead

About AirDNA

We built AirDNA to solve a problem: how do you make smart short-term rental decisions when there’s too much guesswork and not enough good data?

What started in a garage in California in 2015 is now a global team helping thousands of people — from aspiring hosts to major real estate firms — make confident choices about where to invest, what to charge, and how to grow.

Our mission is simple: give people the tools they need to build freedom through short-term rentals. Whether that means buying their first Airbnb or scaling a portfolio, we’re here to help unlock financial independence and growth.

We track 10M+ listings in 120,000 markets, and our platform is trusted by users in over 100 countries. It’s big data, made useful.

In 2023, AirDNA acquired Uplisting, a powerful property management software that helps hosts and operators manage listings across Airbnb, Vrbo, and other platforms. With features like channel management, automated messaging, dynamic pricing, task coordination, and financial reporting, Uplisting expands our mission to support every stage of the short-term rental journey — from investment to operations.

We’re a curious, driven, and kind group of humans who genuinely love what we do. Our values — Happy, Hungry, Honest — guide how we show up for our customers and for each other.

Want to see what that looks like in action? You’ll get a feel once you meet us.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t check every box. Passion, potential, and perspective matter here.

AirDNA is looking for a Frontend Tech Lead to help shape the future of our product experience and technical direction. While this role is full-stack, you will be the technical driver for our frontend guild, pushing forward our React/Type Script architecture, design systems, and developer experience. You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to deliver beautiful, performant, and scalable customer-facing applications.

As a Tech Lead, you’ll guide technical decisions across squads, mentor engineers, and help set the long-term direction of our frontend practice.

• Lead frontend technical strategy:
  Define best practices, champion modern frontend architecture, and drive adoption of component libraries, state management patterns, and performance optimizations.
• Build customer-facing features:
  Work as a hands‑on engineer in your squad, implementing features with React, Type Script, Next.js, and associated libraries.
• Shape the frontend guild:
  Facilitate guild discussions, align engineers across squads, and promote knowledge-sharing and consistency in our frontend stack.
• Mentor and grow engineers:
  Coach junior and mid-level developers, review code, and help engineers build strong frontend skills.
• Collaborate cross-functionally:
  Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers to deliver features that delight customers.
• Contribute full-stack when needed:
  While you’re frontend-leaning, you’ll occasionally dive into backend services (Python, AWS, APIs, Kubernetes) to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence:
  Influence tooling, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring strategies that improve developer velocity and reliability.
• Represent engineering:
  Serve as a technical leader in planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and cross-team initiatives.

• Experienced: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 5 years of recent experience in React and Type Script.
• Frontend expert:
  You’ve scaled and optimized large-scale SPAs, understand rendering/performance tradeoffs, and care deeply about accessibility and design fidelity.
• Full-stack capable:
  You’re comfortable contributing to backend systems (Python/Django/FastAPI, AWS, data pipelines) when the team needs it.
• Technical leader:
  You’ve led technical discussions, influenced architecture decisions, and aligned teams toward common engineering standards.
• Mentor:
  You enjoy leveling up others, giving thoughtful feedback, and guiding careers.
• Collaborator:
  You thrive in cross-functional…