Staff Engineer, OpenTable
CA$160-180k
+ Equity and Bonus
2 days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Open for applications
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$160-180k
+ Equity and Bonus
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
- If you are excited about solving challenging engineering problems and delivering exceptional quality in a fast-paced, agile environment, we'd like to meet you! Bonus points if you love restaurants too!
- 5+ years in web development, preferably with Node.js, React, Redux, and TypeScript
- Strong technical leadership skills, preferably experience leading a team
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Understanding of front-end (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and back-end (Node.js, Fastify, and GraphQL) technologies
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as StatsD, Grafana, ELK Stack
- Proficiency with version control systems like Git
- Strong understanding of software development workflows and processes
What the job involves
- This is an opportunity for an experienced Staff engineer responsible for maintaining our web platform for diners
- This individual will lead a small team of engineers with a passion for developer experience, web technologies and driving our shared platform into the future, as well as be an integral part of the development process
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment
- Develop relationships cross-company to ensure the right architectural and technical direction
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications using Node.js, React, Redux, Fastify, GraphQL, and TypeScript
- Build automation, code generation, linting, formatting, and testing frameworks
- Collaborate with developers to understand their needs and pain points, and develop solutions to streamline workflows and increase productivity
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of our infrastructure components, including Docker, Grafana, ELK Stack
- Write clean, testable, and well-documented code, participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely and efficient manner
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
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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