Front-end Engineer 4 (Manager, IC)
About the role
Building the engine behind modern travel experiences isn't just about moving data or building UIs—it’s about owning full-feature architecture end-to-end. As a Front End Engineer on our Cars and Ground Transportation team, you'll join a fast-moving, product-driven group of makers, doers, and disruptors scaling our travel platform. In an AI-native world, you leverage modern tooling to own the entire build from customer-facing micro-frontends to complex back-end architectures, orchestrating multi-supplier supply, reconciling inconsistent data into unified shopping experiences, and scaling distributed booking pipelines. You will own everything from pay-now vs. pay-at-desk rate processing and competitive price benchmarking to expanding our platform beyond car rentals into broader ground transport like rail and transfers. In this high-impact IC role, you’ll work side-by-side with product managers to shape feature design, challenge generated code through relentless testing, and coach junior engineers, driving transformation at the forefront of emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
- Provide technical leadership for front-end architecture and design patterns, acting as a multiplier for your team's impact
- Mentor other engineers, fostering their growth through thoughtful feedback, code reviews, and sharing of best practices for AI-assisted development, while helping to identify and clear technical obstacles
- Grow and provide subject matter expertise in key platform areas (e.g., performance, accessibility, architecture)
- Contribute to front-end architecture decisions, API design reviews, and reusable component development
- Lead the design and development of client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and micro frontend (MFE) or federated application architectures to deliver scalable and flexible product experiences
- Lead the implementation and refinement of well-managed engineering practices, defining best practices for feature flags and canary rollouts to improve product delivery and quality
- Champion the adoption of agentic AI tools, mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices to increase team velocity
- Apply mastery of the modern web ecosystem (including PWAs, Wasm, mobile web, and Service Workers) to make complex, high-leverage, hands-on technical contributions
- Drive a culture of quality, performance, accessibility