Frontend Tech Lead (US)

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.

The AirDNA team

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.

The Role

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/TypeScript 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, 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.

• Experienced: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 5 years of recent experience in React and TypeScript.
• 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 environments and can translate business goals into technical strategy.
• Forward-thinking: You stay current on frontend trends, evaluate emerging tools, and bring pragmatic innovation to the team

• 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.

• Competitive cash compensation and benefits, the salary for this position is $130,000 - $175,000 per year. 
• Colorado Salary Statement: The salary range displayed in specifically for those potential hired who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for this role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications. 

• Medical, dental, and vision packages to meet your needs
• Unlimited vacation policy; take time when you need it 
• Quarterly team outings 
• 401K with employer match up to 4%
• Continuing education stipend
• Lunch is provided Tuesday to Thursday for those in the Denver office
• Commuter/RTD benefit for Denver based employees
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• New MacBooks for employees
• Pet-friendly!

AirDNA seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support the mission, vision and values of the company and those who respect and promote excellence through diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, marital, familial or parental status, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected classification. The company complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits unlawful harassment based on any of the aforementioned protected classes at every location in which the company operates. This applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment including but not limited to: hiring, assessments, probation, placement, benefits, promotion, demotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, training and development, social and recreational programs, education assistance and retirement. 

We are committed to making our application process and workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. Upon request, AirDNA will reasonably accommodate applicants so they can participate in the application process unless doing so would create an undue hardship to AirDNA or a threat to these individuals, others in the workplace or the company as a whole. To request accommodation, please email [email protected]. Please allow for 24 hours to process your request. 

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