Staff Engineer

Summary

Join OpenTable, a leading industry player with millions of diners and thousands of restaurant partners, as a Staff Engineer. This remote role, transitioning to a hybrid model in downtown Toronto, focuses on maintaining our diner web platform. As a technical leader, you will mentor team members, collaborate across teams, and design, develop, and maintain high-performance web applications using technologies like Node.js, React, and GraphQL. You will also contribute to improving developer experience, development processes, and infrastructure components. This position requires a minimum of 5 years of web development experience and strong technical leadership skills. OpenTable offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in web development, preferably with Node.js, React, Redux, and TypeScript
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with back-end development using Node.js, Fastify, and GraphQL
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as StatsD, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Proficient in version control systems like Git
• Strong understanding of software development workflows, processes, and best practices

Responsibilities

• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment
• Work across the company by developing relationships with other teams to ensure the right architectural and technical direction moving forward
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications using Node.js, React, Redux, Fastify, GraphQL, and TypeScript
• Design, develop, and maintain tools and utilities that improve the developer experience, such as build automation, code generation, linting, formatting, and testing frameworks
• Collaborate with developers across teams to understand their needs and pain points, and develop solutions to streamline their workflows and increase productivity
• Contribute to the improvement of development processes, best practices, and coding standards to ensure a consistent and efficient development environment
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our infrastructure components, including Docker, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely and efficient manner
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends

Benefits

• Paid Time Off - 20 days a year
• Birthday/celebration PTO - 1 day
• Annual company weeks off
• Flexible sick time off
• Paid volunteer time
• Parental Leave Benefits
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Group RRSP and DPSP
• Major Medical Insurance (dependent care options)
• 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