Staff Engineer

About Us:

At OpenTable, we take pleasure in Software Development. We believe that velocity comes from a dedication to clean code and proven engineering principles. We deliver creative products through rapid, continuous development. We move fast, release frequently, and believe strongly in automated testing to help maintain our quality and velocity. We break things sometimes - and that’s fine. We learn from it. Millions of diners and thousands of restaurants around the globe use our products. If you are excited by constantly challenging 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.

About You:

You love to code. You’re curious, passionate and constantly thinking about making code clean and better. You love technology and enjoy finding better ways to do things. You want to share what you discover and feel energised when you can learn from the people around you. When you build software, you consider how people will use it from all angles. You take pride in carefully honing your work until it feels reliable and effortless to use. You are calm during incidents when debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Responsibilities:

OpenTable is looking for a talented Staff Engineer to join our Restaurant Platform team. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a crucial role in providing technical leadership, direction, and mentorship to our engineering team. You will be responsible for driving cross-team projects, collaborating with other teams to achieve organisational initiatives, participate in design reviews and defining robust engineering practices. This is a hands-on technical role with a dash of leadership and strategy.

You'll be a key member of a multi-functional team that builds and designs key features for our OpenTable for Restaurant software platform. We are passionate about building small, independent product development teams – product managers, designers and engineers working together and empowered to make their own decisions.

If you are passionate about driving technical excellence, leading cross-team projects, and mentoring other engineers, we would love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of our organization through innovation and collaboration.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed applications.
• Expertise in Java, Spring framework and Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• Experience working with large-scale, distributed, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and systems, and understanding of the core principles around observability & monitoring, performance, high availability, scalability, reliability and security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - enjoy working with engineers, designers and product owners.
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes and message buses like Kafka; proficiency with Git
• Discipline at unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience working in an agile-based methodology
• Self-motivated to build and share knowledge and skill; has the ability and desire to mentor as well as be mentored. 
• Dedicated professional who forms opinions and enjoys discussion yet remains personable and approachable.
• Proven experience in providing technical leadership and direction

• Experience collaborating with remote teams across time zones

Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• One Celebration Day per calendar year
• Focus on mental health and well-being
• Company-wide weeks off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Generous paid parental leave
• Focus on your career growth
• Work from (almost) anywhere ; wherever you do your best work
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pension Fund

About OpenTable

OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 25 million diners per month via online bookings across approximately 45,000 restaurants.

Since its inception in 1998, OpenTable has seated more than 1.5 billion diners in over 20 countries. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and the OpenTable service is available throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the UK and many more locations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

As an employee of OpenTable, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK's portfolio of meta-search brands including momondo, Cheapflights, Swoodoo, checkfelix and Mundi. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each other’s strengths and insights. Together, we’re able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.