Software Engineer, Product Frontend (8+ YOE)

Airtable • San Francisco, CA; New York, NY • 2d ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This frontend-leaning product engineering role sits squarely in the modern SaaS platform category, where the product is both an application and an extensible toolkit. Airtable’s emphasis on configurable workflows and self-serve onboarding reflects a common SaaS challenge: translating powerful capability into clarity for new users without sacrificing depth for advanced teams.

For a long-term SaaS career, the work maps to durable product engineering themes: building adoption loops, improving activation, and shaping user trust through predictable interactions. The remit spans the interface and the underlying systems, which mirrors how many SaaS companies expect senior engineers to think in terms of end-to-end outcomes rather than isolated components. Collaboration with product, design, research, and data science also signals exposure to the cross-functional operating model that underpins most successful subscription products.

This role tends to fit engineers who prefer product-facing ownership, care about interaction quality, and can balance iteration with maintainability. It also suits professionals who want to apply senior judgment to ambiguous onboarding problems, especially in environments where configurability makes “one right path” impossible and experimentation becomes part of shipping.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible platform that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us.

As a Full-Stack, Front-End leaning engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.

We currently have openings on:

The Self Serve Funnel Team (Full-Stack/FE) is responsible for onboarding and retaining users that come through our self serve channels. Airtable is infinitely configurable. This is both its greatest strength and its biggest onboarding challenge: there isn't one way to use it, so there isn't one way to teach it. As an engineer on the Funnel & Activation Team you will take advantage of frontier AI capabilities to build modern, cutting-edge onboarding experiences that push the industry standard.

Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time:

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration
Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration

What you'll do

Spec and build product features that are beautiful, consistent, and fast, that encourage exploration, and that earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions.
Work at all levels of the stack, from AWS, Node.js, and SQL to React, HTML. and CSS to build and maintain end to end products on Airtable.
Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential.
Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.

Who you are

You have 8+ years of industry experience with modern full-stack web development, with particular emphasis on user facing feature development and full stack work.
You have led large scale strategic initiatives and implemented technical strategy.
You are fluent in one or more frontend and backend technologies, and are interested in programming in JavaScript and React.
You are excited by a product-oriented full stack or frontend role.
You have a good understanding of web technologies and large-scale web application architecture.
You have a background in computer science or a related field.
You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business.
You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right.
You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results.
You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details.
You are currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City.

Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

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