Backend Engineer, OpenTable

Search

CA$110-130k

+ Eligible to be considered for an annual bonus & Equity grant

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Elasticsearch

Spring

ChatGPT

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

More information about location

2 days a week in office

Online restaurant reservation service

Open for applications

Online restaurant reservation service

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BEnterpriseMarketplaceFoodLead generationSaaS

Open for applications

CA$110-130k

+ Eligible to be considered for an annual bonus & Equity grant

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Elasticsearch

Spring

ChatGPT

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

More information about location

2 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BEnterpriseMarketplaceFoodLead generationSaaS

Company mission

To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have an empathetic approach and enjoy working with cross-functional partners of all career levels
You believe communication is the cornerstone for building sustainable applications
3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern object-oriented language, Java a plus
Experience building performant and scalable services and APIs
Follow good coding practices
Experience with document databases
You can drive projects from technical planning all the way to production
You value testing as a way to ensure reliable operation
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

Desirable

Experience with Java Spring
Experience with ElasticSearch
Experience with multithreading and concurrent programming
Experience with reactive frameworks
Experience with DataBricks
Experience with Python
Experience with AWS
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

What the job involves

You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture
By joining the Search Backend team, you will help diners find the perfect restaurant for their special occasion
. On this team, you will collaborate closely with our product managers, data scientists, designers and delivery managers, while flexing your Java skills to partner with other engineering and infrastructure teams
Work with large amounts of data, and retrieve relevant restaurants for a given search in a timely and performant manner
Improve our existing applications using your technical experience and creativity
Capture requirements for new projects by working closely with product managers, designers and engineers
Partner closely with Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers to implement new features
Work together with frontend teams to drive product initiatives forward
Monitor the health of our infrastructure and products
While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters

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

Led by a woman

Top investors

4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (1.2)

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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