Backend Engineer, OpenTable
Restaurant
CA$110-130k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity Grant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Downtown Toronto, ON)
Online restaurant reservation service
Open for applications
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$110-130k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity Grant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Downtown Toronto, ON)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3 or more years of full-time professional experience working in a team environment
- You have strong communication skills, especially the ability to represent the technical trade-offs between different potential solutions
- You reliably deliver on commitments you’ve made
- You write code that is readable and maintainable, and is covered by automated tests
- You are proficient in C# or Java (bonus points if both)
- You know the principles of object-oriented-programming and common design patterns
- You have experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL) and understand core concepts such as primary keys and indexes
- You’ve worked on codebases that were multiple years old before you started working on it
- You adopt emerging AI technologies like Copilot and ChatGPT to enhance your workflow, while also taking ownership of the results produced by these technologies and carefully checking them for accuracy
What the job involves
- At OpenTable, we take pleasure in Software Development
- We believe that velocity comes from a commitment to clean code and solid engineering principles
- We deliver innovative products through rapid, continuous development
- Millions of diners and thousands of restaurants around the globe use our products
- If you are excited by constantly meaningful engineering processes and can deliver exceptional quality in a fast-paced, agile environment, we'd like to meet you
- Bonus points if you love restaurants too
- Our team develops and maintains core backend systems for the OpenTable For Restaurants product
- Our systems are responsible for determining which tables at a restaurant are available at various times and party configurations based on a system of constraints specified by each restaurant
- Our systems are also responsible for booking reservations and syncing their data in real-time to the iPads that power the OpenTable front-of-house experience for our restaurants
- We operate in an environment where reliability and uptime are critical while operating at a large scale
- We work on a variety of projects which include both product development and technical infrastructure upgrades
- Examples of recent projects include: allowing diners to instantly book a restaurant’s private room; automatic cancellation of reservations for diners who haven’t paid a required deposit; and improving the ability of our microservices to run in multiple data centers
- Our team is highly collaborative: we spend time debating what database architecture to implement for a new feature, or what the right technical solution is to a newly-reported bug
- We practice continuous delivery, trunk-based development, code review, and pair programming
- Automated testing is also critical for our team
- This role requires attendance in our office location in downtown Toronto (opening in late 2025/early 2026)
Our take
OpenTable was one of the earliest innovators in the online reservation space, setting up shop in 1998 as a tool to enable restaurants to take bookings online. Rather than charging consumers for the service, OpenTable generates revenue via a monthly subscription and reservation fee from businesses.
Today, the platform is used by tens of thousands of restaurants around the world and seats over 1 billion diners per year. The company was acquired by Booking Holdings – the world's largest travel company – for $2.6 billion in 2014, and remains a subsidiary of the group to this day.
OpenTable is the dominant player in the restaurant reservation software category, with an impressive 45% market share, but does face increasing competition from platforms like Resy, Tock, TableAgent, and many more. Nonetheless, this market leader has garnered an impressive reputation, and there is nothing to say it won't hold on to the dominance it has earned into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2000
$36m
SERIES C
Jan 2000
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $48.2m
Company benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Debby Soo
(CEO, not founder)After graduating from Stanford with a liberal arts major, Debby started their career in investment banking. Thereafter they worked in Google’s Strategic Partnerships Group and then spent a decade at KAYAK, eventually becoming CCO.
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