Backend Engineer

Summary

Join OpenTable, a leading industry player with millions of diners and 60,000 restaurant partners, as a remote backend software engineer. This role will eventually transition to a hybrid model in downtown Toronto. You will be part of a global team developing and maintaining core backend systems for the OpenTable For Restaurants product, ensuring reliability and uptime at a large scale. The team works on various projects, including product development and technical infrastructure upgrades, using agile methodologies like continuous delivery and pair programming. You will contribute to innovative products used by millions of diners and thousands of restaurants worldwide. OpenTable offers a collaborative environment and a commitment to clean code and solid engineering principles.

Requirements

• Have 3 or more years of full-time professional experience working in a team environment
• Have strong communication skills, especially the ability to represent the technical trade-offs between different potential solutions
• Deliver reliably on commitments you’ve made
• Write code that is readable and maintainable, and is covered by automated tests
• Be proficient in C# or Java
• Know the principles of object-oriented-programming and common design patterns
• Have experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL) and understand core concepts such as primary keys and indexes
• Have worked on codebases that were multiple years old before you started working on it
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core backend systems for the OpenTable For Restaurants product
• Determine which tables at a restaurant are available at various times and party configurations based on a system of constraints specified by each restaurant
• Book reservations and sync their data in real-time to the iPads that power the OpenTable front-of-house experience for our restaurants
• Work on a variety of projects which include both product development and technical infrastructure upgrades
• Allow diners to instantly book a restaurant’s private room
• Automatically cancel reservations for diners who haven’t paid a required deposit
• Improve the ability of our microservices to run in multiple data centers
• Debate what database architecture to implement for a new feature, or what the right technical solution is to a newly-reported bug
• Practice continuous delivery, trunk-based development, code review, and pair programming
• Utilize automated testing

Preferred Qualifications

Be proficient in both C# and Java

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Parental leave benefits
• Annual bonus
• Equity grant