# Jackie Chen

> Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, specializing in frontend for complex, impactful products

Location: Belmont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jackiechen

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA
• Web Tech Lead for Listings Tab, a key launch involving 100+ engineers to rebuild one of the most complex surfaces at Airbnb to enable simple listing management for Hosts
• DRI for the Users, Listings, & Platforms org to modernize client architecture by replacing legacy systems with the development of new foundational libraries for Forms and Flows in collaboration with the Client Foundation team
• Frontend Tech Lead for the Experiences business, consolidating architecture with the Stays core business for product consistency and reduced technical maintenance

### Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, CA
• Owned the architecture and delivery of net-new features (notifications and recents pages) as well as complete refactors for the core web app redesign on the Webapp End-User Team
• Led the Front-End Frameworks Team to complete a full migration of the end-user web app to React
and Redux, including architectural design, performance optimizations, and dependency planning
• Maintained the React component library shared by client teams, contributing various accessible
components (tooltips, autocomplete, context menu, etc.) and improving the developer experience
with preprocessing, linting, type-checking, and a testing framework migration

### Senior Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Web Application Intern @ Box
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Los Altos, CA
• Built front-end features for the file preview page, such as image panning, full screen mode, and header UI
• Implemented the slide-down carousel with thumbnails and filenames for navigation within a folder

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
• Implemented variations of a randomized path-planning algorithm for structural inspection with visualizations
• Optimized the algorithm using KD-trees and ODE solvers to find the cheapest obstacle-free path
• Programmed an algorithm that uses TSP solvers and a point-to-point planner for comparison of results

### Software Engineering Extern @ Appian Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Reston, VA
• Integrated Clojure test input generation into Java tests using Maven and Nexus for improved automation
• Performed dependency analysis of generated data types on primitives using graph operations in Clojure

### g-speak Intern @ Oblong Industries Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles, CA
• Developed keyboard, remote, and gestural controls to fly a quadricopter using Oblong’s g-speak SDK
• Integrated video streaming and flight controls for the quadricopter with Oblong’s geospatial software


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jackiegchen

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Last updated: 2026-03-22