Engineering Manager, OpenTable
iOS
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
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2+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Open for applications
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- While experience with our exact tool set isn’t required, a background in similar technologies will help you get a head start. Our ecosystem includes Swift, SwiftUi, CoreData, MVVM, FRP (via Combine & Async/Await)
- You have an empathetic mindset and enjoy working with developers, designers and product owners of all career levels
- You are growth-oriented - driven and obsessed with continuous improvement
- You have a strong software engineering background, typically with 5+ years of hands-on experience
- 5+ years experience leading iOS engineering teams
- Solid understanding of functional reactive programming concepts and MVVM patterns
- You have proven experience in mentoring engineers and leading technical projects, and you are looking to grow as a people manager
- You bring a strong sense of ownership and accountability to your work
- You hold engineers to a high technical bar, and expect them to be able to speak to tradeoffs to justify their decisions
- You’re comfortable architecting systems end to end, and managing full-stack teams
- You have driven successful projects from technical planning all the way to production
- You are proficient in communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, and see communication as the cornerstone of building sustainable teams
- You enjoy growing other engineers in their career journey
What the job involves
- The Front of House team, within the TMS line of business, is the heart of our OT4R system. We build mission critical software that allows restaurants to operate in high paces dining spaces to deliver incredible hospitality. Our mission is to empower restaurants to do what they do best better
- We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee our Front of House iOS team. In this role, you will be responsible for the team's technical vision, strategy, execution, and the growth of our talented senior and principal product engineers
- You will partner closely with leaders in Product, Design, and other engineering groups to translate complex business needs into scalable and forward-looking solutions. This is a high-impact role where you will drive our in-restaurant and mobile products in the TMS LOB at OpenTable, driving technical strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
- Managing the outcomes and quality of the engineering team
- Continuously improving our processes using your experience and expertise
- Providing development updates to stakeholders within and outside of the team
- Growing engineers through feedback, mentoring and coaching
- Hiring new engineers as needed, and helping other teams with their hiring goals
- At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones
- While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters
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)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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