OpenTable

Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Availability Planning & Experiences)

OpenTable • $155K — $175K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience, primarily in frontend technologies
  • Extensive experience with React and team collaboration
  • Strong communication skills for discussing technical trade-offs
  • Ability to manage projects from planning to production deployment
  • Proficient in writing readable and maintainable code
  • Experience with testing frameworks and automated tests
  • Familiarity with design collaboration tools like Figma
  • Comfortable giving and receiving feedback in code reviews
  • Willingness to leverage AI technologies to enhance workflow.

Responsibilities

  • Build intuitive tools for restaurants to manage availability and events
  • Collaborate with developers, designers, and product owners at all levels
  • Design and implement features within a modern frontend stack
  • Test, debug, and ensure code quality meets requirements
  • Create documentation and create abstractions for code reuse
  • Drive technical planning and execution of projects
  • Work with designers to implement user-friendly experiences.

Benefits

  • Generous vacation policy including birthday time off
  • Ability to work remotely for up to 20 days per year
  • Comprehensive mental health support including therapy sessions and mindfulness resources
  • Paid parental and volunteer leave
  • Funding and resources for professional development
  • Annual company-wide time-off for recharging
  • Employee discounts on travel
  • Diverse employee resource groups
  • Health, dental, life, and disability insurance.
Full Job Description
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.

About OpenTable

OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company. It provides online reservations at about 54,000 restaurants around the world seating some 30 million diners monthly. The company was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998. Reservations are free to end users; the company charges restaurants monthly and per-reservation fees for their use of the system. In addition to online reservations, OpenTable offers restaurant management software for table management, guest management, and reservation management. OpenTable went public on the NASDAQ in 2009, and in 2014 it was acquired by Priceline Group for $2.6 billion.
Learn more about OpenTable
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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