Backend Software Engineer, OpenTable

• 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# (being proficient in Java as well is a bonus)
• 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 to enhance your workflow, while also taking ownership of the results produced by these technologies and carefully checking them for accuracy

Desirable

• 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