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. Millions of diners and tens of thousands of restaurants around the world use our products. If you are excited by constantly relevant engineering processes and can deliver exceptional quality at scale in a fast-paced, agile environment, we'd like to meet you. Bonus points if you love restaurants too!

You’ll work on

A fast-paced highly collaborative team to build out our OpenTable for Restaurants platform aimed at helping restaurants manage their daily operations from anywhere in the world on their Web devices and mobile phones. As a part of the team, you’ll collaborate with a passionate and diverse group of full-stack engineers, designers, and product managers who are committed to building beautiful, scalable, and high-value features for restaurants.

You'll be responsible for sound technical execution through hands-on development, automated testing, and prototyping of our flagship product. You will ship and support features used daily by thousands of restaurants to dynamically manage their operations, control availability, and build inventory in real-time.

About you

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.

You’ll help us:

• 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

You’ll fit right in if:

• Expert knowledge of JavaScript
• Good experience with modern CSS and HTML5
• Strong understanding of React/Redux and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Good understanding of async design patterns
• Unit testing/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

Optional, but a major plus:

• Deep knowledge in Node.js and a server framework like Express
• Experience working within a distributed SOA architecture
• Proven experience designing and building Restful APIs and Microservices architecture
• Web Sockets communication strategies
• Docker and container-based deployment

Diversity and Inclusion

We aspire to have a workplace that reflects all of the diverse communities we serve. We know that when we have diverse teams we produce more creative ideas, products, and better outcomes for our team members. OpenTable/KAYAK is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for roles on our team. Whoever you are, just be you.

We will 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.

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.