Senior Software Engineer, OpenTable
JavaScript/Frontend
CA$135-165k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
Online restaurant reservation service
Posted today
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Posted today
CA$135-165k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a strong appetite for building high-quality systems, and working with the community to drive technology standards, we want to hear from you
- You have 5 or more years of full-time professional experience working in a team environment
- You are an expert in JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js, React, Frontend build tools (webpack, Vite, etc.) and Testing using tools like Jest and Cypress
- You are deeply familiar with optimising CI/CD pipelines, application performance, monitoring, logging and making things faster
- You have previously worked in Micro Frontends Architectures and Monorepos
- You have experience working with Fastify or Express in a Dockerised environment
- You have strong collaboration skills, are kind to others and work well in an inclusive working environment
- You care about building platforms and reusable tooling and libraries to solve similar problems across multiple systems, and are experienced in building developer-facing tools
- You take ownership and solve problems. You do not point to a problem and stop. This role requires spotting common problem areas and solving them in a standardised way
- You adopt emerging AI technologies like Claude and Cursor to enhance your workflow and automate recurring and repetitive tasks, while also taking ownership of the results produced by these technologies and carefully checking them for accuracy
Desirable
- You have previously built design systems or component libraries at scale
- You have an understanding of accessibility standards and implementation
What the job involves
- You will be a Senior Software Engineer working on the Foundations Team. The Foundations team is the engine responsible for building and maintaining the platform that powers our Restaurant frontend ecosystem
- This is a high-impact role where you'll work on developer tools, libraries, design systems and platform architecture that improve developer experience and velocity on the Restaurant teams and can be adopted across the organisation. The scope is FullStack across the Frontend and Backend-For-Frontend systems
- You will work closely with developers across multiple teams to drive the evolution of our Restaurant platform
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.
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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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