Senior Software Engineer

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 that includes our sister brand, KAYAK and its portfolio of global metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.

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 energized 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

In this role, you will:

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for developing the platform for OpenTable’s restaurant applications thereby helping restaurants to make the most of Opentable’s offerings.

All of us are engineers, and we like to operate in a self-driven culture of ownership. You will own multiple product components, working with product managers to help in scoping features, owning the technical architecture and having primary responsibility for actual implementation of code and automated tests.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for technical and architectural decisions to ensure our platforms are scalable, highly available, reliable and have a dedication, especially under peak traffic spikes.

Please apply if:

We don't believe in checklists, so please apply if some of the following describe you.

• 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed applications.

• You consider yourself an expert in Java, Spring framework and Spring Boot, and Hibernate.

• You have the battle scars from years of working with large-scale, distributed, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and systems, and understand the core principles around observability & monitoring, performance, high availability, scalability, reliability and security.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills - you enjoy working with engineers, designers and product owners.

• Good understanding of writing complex SQL queries on tables with hundreds of millions of records and getting results back in sub-second.

• Experience in several database technologies (e.g. RDBMS like MySQL or Postgres and NoSQL like MongoDB or Cassandra). A really deep understanding of PostgreSQL and ability to confidently fine-tune things under the hood is going to give you a competitive edge.

• You understand the best ways to build data pipelines to support real time data ingestion and aggregation of millions of events, and can build simple solutions to complex requirements.

• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes, and message buses like Kafka.

• You are calm during incidents when debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

• You are a life-long student with a self-motivated desire to build and share your knowledge and skill; you have the ability and desire to mentor as well as be mentored.

• You are a dedicated professional who forms opinions and enjoys discussion yet remains personable and approachable.
  

To truly blow us away you might also have:

• Knowledge of system performance and operational readiness monitoring.

• Experience collaborating with remote teams across time zones.

• Experience working as a full-stack engineer will be an added advantage.

• Simple intuitive design for complex architectural problems.

• Resiliency patterns like bulkheads, circuit breakers, fallbacks, and load shedding

Benefits:

• 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!)
• No meeting Fridays
• 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
• Quarterly team offsites
• Tax optimisation options
• Generous health insurance
• Pension fund

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.