Senior Engineering Manager, OpenTable
Frontend Platform
CA$175-205k
+ annual cash bonus + equity grant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Posted today
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Posted today
CA$175-205k
+ annual cash bonus + 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
- If you are excited by constantly meaningful engineering processes and can deliver exceptional quality in a fast-paced, agile environment, we'd like to meet you
- Bonus points if you love restaurants too
- You have at least 5 years of engineering management experience with direct reports
- You lead with transparency and empathy, with a people-first mindset. You set clear expectations, and are not afraid to respectfully communicate when those expectations are not met
- Your communication is clear and concise. You can represent technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- You reliably deliver on commitments you’ve made
- You know how to organize and plan projects; create and update roadmaps; and set realistic deadlines that have the buy-in of the people that will need to meet those deadlines
- You hold engineers to a high technical bar, and expect them to be able to speak to tradeoffs to justify their decisions
- You help the team stay organized, and create processes that allow it to run efficiently
- You have a strong technical background and are proficient in JavaScript and the React framework and have experience building full stack web applications with Node.js
What the job involves
- You will be the Senior Engineering Manager of the Restaurant Foundations platform team
- The team’s charter is to create a platform for our Front End client teams
- The team maintains and develops the tooling, components and libraries that support our restaurant web infrastructure
- As the manager you will work with a team of smart engineers, defining the future of the web platform
- The teams’ mission is to build and support our broader team of web engineers in a variety of ways
- These include maintaining the design system, and component infrastructure, defining standards and improving developer experience
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
Articles
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.
People progressing
Joined as a Project Coordinator. Promoted to Lead Project Coordinator after 2 years. Then promoted again to Project Coordinator Manager after 2 years. Now is Director of Global Sales & Services.
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