Senior Software Engineer, OpenTable
Frontend
CA$135-165k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Be an early applicant
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$135-165k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
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
- You have 5 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 can drive projects from technical planning all the way to production
- You write code that is readable and maintainable
- You are proficient in JavaScript, Node.js, and React. (Knowledge of TypeScript is a bonus.)
- You carefully test your work for bugs while ensuring consistency with requirements and designs. You also build automated tests and understand how to use them properly
- You have experience implementing designs and collaborating with designers using tools like Figma
- You invest in the architecture of the code you are writing. You create abstractions; find opportunities to create generic and reusable code; and build an integration layer between the UI and backend systems, rather than putting everything directly in the UI layer
- You show full ownership over the code you write, and you take the time to learn things you are working on which you don’t understand
- You’ve worked on codebases that were several years old before you started working on them
- You are comfortable providing feedback to others via a code review process, and receiving feedback others have provided to you via this process
- 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
- You will be a Senior Software Engineer working on the frontend on the Availability Planning and Experiences team
- The Availability Planning system is the engine that powers our OpenTable for Restaurants product
- It is where a Restaurant goes to define their schedule and shifts, as well as the placement of their tables; and it has a complex array of settings to control how those tables are utilized by their diners
- As we keep adding more controls, we are always thinking about how we can ensure these controls interact with each other in sensible ways, and how we can give Restaurants precise control and power without making it too complex for them to use
- We also enable Restaurants to create their own Experiences, providing an increasing number of ways in which Restaurants can define interesting and unique events for their customers to attend
- Our codebase uses JavaScript and TypeScript with the React and Redux frameworks
- We make extensive use of testing using the React Testing library, Jest, and Cypress
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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