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This will be a remote role to start, with plans to transition to hybrid in-office 2x/week located in downtown Toronto.
About OpenTable:
With millions of diners, 60,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.
Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. 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.
The Opportunity
The Diner Core Reservation team builds and operates the systems that power the reservation lifecycle for the core diner experience – from slot lock and booking through change, cancel, confirm, and downstream event publication. These systems sit at the center of a critical set of diner, restaurant and partner flows, serving OpenTable web and mobile clients as well as partner integrations, and they operate multi-region with strict expectations around correctness, latency, and reliability.
We’re looking for a Senior Engineer who can design and deliver changes in a complex reservation domain, raise the bar on software quality, and help the team move quickly without compromising reliability. The team works across a mix of C#/.NET and Java services and supporting systems, and the role requires comfort navigating both ecosystems. Other technologies you’ll work with include Redis, relational databases such as Postgres or SQL Server, in-memory and distributed caches, RESTful APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven architectures (EDA).
What You'll Do
You’ll be a hands-on backend engineer: writing code, contributing to design docs, reviewing changes thoughtfully, and owning work from design through rollout, observability, and iteration.
Code craft and Architecture
- Design, implement, and evolve backend services and APIs that support various reservation related workflows
- Build a strong understanding of how reservation flows interact with adjacent systems such as partner APIs, restaurant systems, payment services, and event publishers.
- Contribute to resilient service behavior in distributed systems, including thoughtful handling of retries, rollback, failure modes, and cross-region routing.
- Write maintainable, well-tested code with a strong emphasis on integration testing and production readiness for business-critical reservation flows.
- Use AI tooling thoughtfully to accelerate implementation, design exploration, testing, and incident analysis while maintaining a high quality bar.
Drive execution and outcomes
- Break down large, ambiguous reservation initiatives into clear technical workstreams that can be delivered incrementally.
- Partner effectively with Product, TPM, and neighboring engineering teams to resolve dependencies and move projects forward.
- Take ownership of production issues, triage them calmly, communicate clearly, and drive fixes through to completion.
- Provide clear, actionable updates on the work you own and help keep execution grounded in measurable outcomes.
Team Contribution
- Participate meaningfully in code reviews and design reviews, giving feedback that improves quality, simplicity, readability, testability and long-term maintainability.
- Help improve engineering standards around testing, documentation, rollout safety, and operational excellence.
- Share knowledge across the team and contribute to a healthy engineering culture grounded in thoughtful debate, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in communities of practice, ensuring our systems align with platform-wide standards while feeding local needs back into those standards.
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience designing, implementing, and operating backend services in C#/.NET and/or Java, with the ability to quickly ramp up in either ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with Redis and other cache technologies, including key design, eviction strategies, cache invalidation patterns, and multi-layer caching topologies.
- Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and Kafka (or similar systems)
- Solid experience with database systems (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and handling high-volume read/write workloads.
- Good grasp of distributed systems fundamentals and observability and performance tuning in production
- Strong testing instincts, including unit and integration testing for critical flows.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (for example, to accelerate implementation, test coverage, code reviews, or incident analysis) in a safe and responsible way.
Nice to Have
- Experience in reservation, booking, marketplace, or other transaction-heavy platforms.
- Familiarity with payment-related reservation flows such as credit card holds, deposits, or prepaid experiences.
- Experience working with event-driven systems, regionalized services, or highly-integrated legacy-to-modernized architectures.
- Demonstrated ownership: you proactively identify problems, unblock yourself and others, and drive work to completion.
- Ability to take ambiguous requirements and translate them into clear, well-reasoned technical solutions.
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and balancing technical constraints, user experience, and business impact.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical findings and trade-offs effectively to engineers and non-engineers.
Benefits and Perks
- Generous paid vacation (20 days) + time off for your birthday
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
The expected range of compensation for this position based in Toronto, Canada, including commission and/or bonuses is $140,000 - $155,000 CAD. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.
We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.
Work Environment & Flexibility
At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. 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. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.
Inclusion
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.
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Staff Frontend Software Engineer (Availability Planning & Experiences)
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*This will be a remote role to start, with plans to transition to hybrid in-office 2x/week located in downtown Toronto at 134 Peter Street.
With millions of diners, 60,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.
Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. 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.
Availability Planning & Experiences Team
The Availability Planning & Experiences team builds the highly visible, mission-critical foundation where OpenTable’s thousands of global restaurant partners define their operational setup: setting shifts, defining schedules, optimizing table layouts, and creating unique dining events and Experiences.
This work is profoundly impactful. The features you build directly shape the experience of our top-tier restaurant partners, who frequently come to us with requests that influence our roadmap. You won't just be building features; you'll be influencing the user experience and technical foundation of a product central to both OpenTable and our partners' success.
This role offers a unique mix of autonomy and ownership: you will have a real voice in both design and product decisions, ensuring we deliver powerful control without overwhelming complexity.
Your Role: Deep Technical Ownership and Execution
As a Staff Frontend Engineer in Toronto, you will serve as a core technical leader and hands-on architect, responsible for tackling the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges within the Availability Planning system. Your primary contribution will be through deep, direct technical execution, system design, and the implementation of large-scale features.
Your key responsibilities will center on:
- Hands-On System Building: You will actively write and review mission-critical code in React, Redux, TypeScript, and JavaScript. This role requires continuous deep engagement with the codebase to drive performance and maintainability.
- Architectural Ownership: Define and implement the technical vision for the Availability Planning system. You will own system design and execution, focusing on creating intuitive and scalable UI architectures that can manage immense complexity.
- Frontend Mastery & Quality: Design and build elegant, reusable abstractions and an integrated layer between the UI and backend. You will set a high standard for quality, driving sophisticated testing strategies using React Testing Library, Jest, and Cypress.
- Technical Elevation: Act as a force multiplier, elevating the coding standards and practices of the entire team through meticulous code reviews and mentorship.
Requirements
You are a highly experienced engineer ready to translate strategic goals into elegant, production-ready code while leading technical strategy.
- Extensive Expertise: 7+ years of professional software development experience in a collaborative team environment, with a significant track record in building and scaling large-scale frontend applications.
- Code Mastery: Deep, expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React. You write code that is readable and maintainable, and you take the time to learn things you are working on that you don’t understand.
- Strategic Architecture: Proven experience investing deeply in code architecture and driving multi-year technical roadmaps on large, established codebases. You excel at creating generic and reusable code.
- Strategic Execution: Exceptional ability to drive large, cross-functional projects from the early planning stage all the way into production.
- Communication and Collaboration: The ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to product and design partners, as well as experience collaborating closely with designers (e.g., using Figma).
- Quality Champion: A passion for rigorous quality control and pixel-perfect design implementation through the use of both automated and manual testing as well as careful code reviews.
- Ownership Mindset: You embrace full ownership over your systems and adopt modern tools (like AI helpers) to enhance efficiency, while maintaining rigorous standards for code quality and accuracy.
Benefits and Perks
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
The expected compensation range for this Toronto, Canada based role is $160,000 - $190,000 CAD. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.
We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.
Work Environment & Flexibility
At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. 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. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.
Inclusion
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.
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This is a hybrid schedule (2x/week) role planned for our downtown Toronto, Canada office.
About OpenTable
With millions of diners and tens of thousands of restaurant partners around the world, OpenTable is an industry leader in online reservations. Our technology helps restaurants focus on what matters most – their guests, their teams, and their business – while giving diners a reliable, delightful way to find the perfect restaurant for any occasion.
Every OpenTable employee has a tangible impact, contributing to a global team that includes our sister brand KAYAK and its portfolio of travel products. We believe hospitality is about taking care of others, and that ethos shapes both our products and how we work together.
The Opportunity
The Diner Core Availability team builds and operates the systems that power availability search for the core diner experience—delivering fast, reliable booking options across our global network.
We serve millions of diners, handle several thousands of searches per second, and operate under strict low-latency and high-reliability requirements. The team owns the end-to-end lifecycle of availability queries: from ingesting upstream changes (inventory, policies, events) through event-driven pipelines, to maintaining highly-optimized in-memory and distributed cache layers, to responding to real-time search requests from web and mobile clients.
We’re looking for a Staff Engineer who applies a deep understanding of the underlying technologies and dependencies to solve problems. They help raise the bar on performance, reliability, and simplicity as we scale availability search at OpenTable.
Technologies you’ll work with include C#/.NET, Redis, in-memory and distributed caches, RESTful APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven architectures (EDA).
What You’ll Do
You’ll be both a hands-on engineer and a technical leader: writing code, writing technical design docs, reviewing design docs, and owning solutions end-to-end from design through rollout, observability, and ongoing iteration.
Code craft and architecture
- Design, implement, and evolve C#/.NET services and APIs that expose availability information to internal and external consumers.
- Own the architecture of availability search services and related caches, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput performance at global scale.
- Define strategies for in-memory and distributed caching (e.g., Redis) that balance freshness, consistency, and cost.
- Lead the evolution of our event-driven architecture (Kafka) for propagating inventory, configuration, and policy changes into availability systems.
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between delivery speed, technical quality, operational risk, and cost
- Use AI tooling thoughtfully (e.g., for design exploration, code generation, test scaffolding, and incident analysis) to increase team velocity while maintaining a high quality bar
Drive execution and outcomes
- Break down large, ambiguous availability initiatives into sequenced technical workstreams
- Provide reliable estimates and hold yourself accountable to delivery commitments, while adjusting plans thoughtfully as new information emerges.
- Proactively identify and unblock cross-team dependencies across other backend and platform teams
- Represent the team in projects you own during sync meetings by providing clear, and actionable updates.
Provide technical leadership
- Set and uphold code, design, and review standards for the team in C#/.NET and our surrounding ecosystem, with a focus on simplicity, testability, readability, and long-term maintainability.
- Represent the Diner Core Availability team in cross-team forums and communities of practice, ensuring our systems align with platform-wide standards while feeding local needs back into those standards.
- Foster a healthy, inclusive engineering culture: encourage thoughtful debate, blameless retros, and data-driven decision-making.
What We’re Looking For
Technical experience
- Strong experience (5+ years) designing, implementing, and operating backend services in C#/.NET
- Proven track record building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency services (e.g., search, recommendation, or other read-heavy systems).
- Deep hands-on experience with Redis and other cache technologies, including key design, eviction strategies, cache invalidation patterns, and multi-layer caching topologies.
- Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and Kafka (or similar systems)
- Strong experience with database systems (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and handling high-volume read/write workloads.
- Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, failure modes, circuit breaking, timeouts, retry/backoff strategies.
- Experience with observability and performance tuning in production (profiling, capacity planning, latency/throughput trade-offs).
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (for example, to accelerate implementation, test coverage, code reviews, or incident analysis) in a safe and responsible way.
Staff-level impact and leadership
- History of acting as a technical leader on a product or platform team: setting direction, influencing roadmaps, and being accountable for significant system outcomes.
- Demonstrated bias for action: proactively unblocking teams, building prototypes, driving decisions to closure, and moving complex initiatives forward without waiting for perfect information.
- Demonstrated ability to decompose large, ambiguous initiatives into clear technical plans that multiple engineers can execute.
- Comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Data, other Engineering teams) to balance technical constraints, user experience, and business impact.
- A bias toward data-informed decisions: using metrics and experiments to validate whether changes are improving outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with search or ranking systems
- Background in reservation or marketplace platforms where availability and matching are core problems.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes-based deployments, service meshes, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits and Perks
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
- Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- 20 days of paid time off upon start
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.
Inclusion
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.
Ready to apply?
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Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Availability Planning & Experiences)
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This will be a remote role to start, with plans to transition to hybrid in-office 2x/week located in downtown Toronto at 134 Peter Street.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Availability Planning & Experiences team, you'll build the tools that power how restaurants run on OpenTable.
Availability Planning is the engine behind OpenTable for Restaurants. It's where restaurants set their schedules, define shifts, arrange tables, and fine-tune how those tables can be booked. You'll work on challenging problems that balance precision and flexibility, giving restaurants powerful controls while keeping the experience intuitive.
You'll also help shape our Experiences, which lets restaurants create unique events and offerings. You'll influence how restaurants design, manage, and showcase these experiences to guests.
On the engineering side, you'll work in a modern frontend stack:
- JavaScript + TypeScript
- React + Redux
- React Testing Library, Jest, Cypress for robust testing
Requirements
- You are humble and enjoy working with developers, designers and product owners of all career levels
- You have 5 or more years of full-time professional experience as a software developer in a team environment, including extensive experience with React
- You have strong communication skills, especially the ability to represent the technical trade-offs between different potential solutions
- You can drive projects from technical planning all the way to production
- You write code that is readable and maintainable. You create abstractions and find opportunities for code reuse.
- You carefully test your work for bugs while ensuring consistency with requirements and designs. You also build automated tests and understand how to use them properly.
- You have experience implementing designs and collaborating with designers using tools like Figma
- You are comfortable providing feedback to others via a code review process, and receiving feedback others have provided to you via this process
- 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.
Benefits:
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
The expected compensation range for this Toronto, Canada based role is $155,000 - $175,000 CAD. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.
We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.
Work Environment & Flexibility
At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. 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. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.
Inclusion
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.
Ready to apply?
Apply to OpenTable