AirDNA · 2 months ago
Frontend Tech Lead
United States
Contract
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expAirDNA is a company focused on providing data-driven insights for short-term rental investments. They are seeking a Frontend Tech Lead to guide the frontend technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing applications.
AnalyticsBig DataBusiness IntelligenceData VisualizationEnterprise SoftwareMarket ResearchReal EstateSoftware
Responsibilities
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, TypeScript, 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
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering
At least 5 years of recent experience in React and TypeScript
Experience scaling and optimizing large-scale SPAs
Understanding of rendering/performance tradeoffs
Deep care about accessibility and design fidelity
Comfortable contributing to backend systems (Python/Django/FastAPI, AWS, data pipelines)
Led technical discussions and influenced architecture decisions
Ability to align teams toward common engineering standards
Enjoy leveling up others and giving thoughtful feedback
Thrive in cross-functional environments
Ability to translate business goals into technical strategy
Stay current on frontend trends and evaluate emerging tools
Bring pragmatic innovation to the team
Preferred
Experience with design systems and component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Radix, Styled Components)
Experience with React Query, Recoil, Redux, or other state/data management approaches
Experience with Google Maps API or other data visualization libraries (D3, Leaflet, Mapbox)
Strong background in CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Familiarity with headless CMS platforms (Prismic, Contentful)
Experience with data-intensive apps, large-scale visualizations, or personalization at scale
Benefits
Indefinite contract
Competitive salary
36 holidays per year
Flexible remote environment
Continuing education stipend
Language lessons with Preply (French-German-Italian-Spanish)
A friendly, collaborative team that values clear communication
Opportunities for growth, mentorship, and learning new technologies
A mission-driven product with real user impact
Company
AirDNA
AirDNA turns short-term vacation rental data into actionable analytics. Analyze easier. Invest wiser. List smarter. Succeed faster.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
AirDNA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-03-14Acquired
Leadership Team
Jamie Lane
SVP of Analytics, Chief Economist
Recent News
The Local France
2025-11-02
2025-10-19
Company data provided by crunchbase