Opentable

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

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What Opentable is looking for in applicants

OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), powers reservations for the hospitality industry. OpenTable’s software seats more than 1 billion people per year and helps more than 50,000+ restaurants, bars, wineries and other venues attract guests, manage capacity, improve operations and maximize revenue.

As an employee of OpenTable, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK's portfolio of metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each other's strengths and insights. Together, we're able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.

At OpenTable, we take pleasure in Software Development. We believe that velocity comes from a commitment to clean code and solid engineering principles. We deliver innovative products through rapid, continuous development. Tens of millions of diners and thousands of restaurants around the globe use our products. If you are excited by solving challenging engineering problems and can deliver exceptional quality in a fast-paced, agile environment, we'd like to meet you. Bonus points if you love restaurants too!

In this role, you will: 

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, support, and improve existing applications and systems. We’ll be mainly working with advanced JavaScript, CSS, and React to build highly scalable and resilient web applications.
  • Collaborate with other team members, teams, software engineers, product managers, delivery managers, and other stakeholders across the organization. 
  • Help foster a strong team culture and cultivate innovation. 
  • Innovate our domain model and systems to better fit our products and services
  • Continuously provide mentorship and guidance to team members

Please apply if: 

You are a person that loves to code across the full stack but you have a passion for every aspect of delivering value to a customer through their web client. You are curious, passionate and constantly thinking about making code clean and better. You love to learn new things and you feel energized when you share with the people around you. You are open to new ideas and pairing sessions as opportunities to learn. 

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.

  • Expert knowledge of advanced JavaScript (4+ years)
  • Good understanding of async design patterns
  • Good understanding of data structures and OO design
  • Strong understanding of React/Redux and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Good experience with modern CSS and HTML5
  • You love tuning performance and making things faster
  • Unit test/ TDD experience
  • Experience building an automation‐focused culture, both in testing and build/deploy
  • You are client-focused, react well to changes, work with teams, and are able to multitask on multiple products and project
  • Deep knowledge in Node.js and a server framework like Express

Benefits (US-based positions)

A few of the benefits you get at OpenTable—

  • Work from (almost) anywhere; wherever you do your best work
  • Focus on mental health and well-being 
  • Company paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth 
  • Company paid subscription to HeadSpace 
  • Company-wide weeks off each year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Health, dental & vision plans
  • 401k with company match
  • Focus on your career growth
  • Enriched learning and development opportunities
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

OpenTable aspires to be a workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve and a culture that is inclusive and welcoming. Hiring people with different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users and our partners. Representation matters.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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