Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You have a strong software engineering background with backend applications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience leading the development of scalable backend applications, including 1+ years of building analytical, data-intensive applications
- You have proven experience in mentoring engineers and leading technical projects, and you are looking to grow as a people manager
- You have an empathetic mindset and enjoy working with developers, designers and product owners of all career levels
- You are growth-oriented, driven and obsessed with continuous improvement
- You bring a strong sense of ownership and accountability to your work
- You’re comfortable architecting systems end to end, and managing full-stack teams
- You have driven successful projects from technical planning all the way to production
- You are proficient in communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, and see communication as the cornerstone of building sustainable teams
- You enjoy growing other engineers in their career journey
- Please consider applying if this role sounds interesting to you even if you don’t meet all the requirements. A computer science degree is not required to join OpenTable
What the job involves
- The Guest Platform team, within the Hospitality line of business, is the backbone of our CRM system
- We build and operate the scalable, reliable backend systems for the guest-centric workflows in our restaurant product
- Our mission is to empower restaurants with analytics and insights about their guests, enabling them to make smarter decisions and provide an elevated hospitality experience
- We’re looking for an engineering manager to oversee our Guest Data Platform team
- As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the team's technical vision, strategy, execution, and the growth of our talented senior and principal product engineers and bridge the gap between product engineering and data engineering
- You will partner closely with leaders in Product, Design, Data Engineering, Data Science, and other engineering groups to translate complex business needs into a scalable and forward-looking data architecture
- This is a high-impact role where you will define the future of analytical products in the Hospitality LOB at OpenTable, driving technical strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
- Our data platform is built on a modern, cloud-native stack. While experience with our exact tools isn't required, a strong background in similar technologies is essential
- Our ecosystem includes technologies for data ingestion (CDC and Kafka), processing (Spark), storage (Databricks/S3), and orchestration (Airflow)
- Data engineering systems primarily use Python and SQL, and our product-facing backend applications are built on Java/Spring that run on an on-prem Kubernetes cluster
- We use MongoDB, and ElasticSearch as our primary operational data store
- Managing the outcomes and quality of the engineering team consisting of full-stack engineers
- Continuously improving our processes using your experience and expertise
- Providing development updates to stakeholders within and outside of the team
- Growing engineers through feedback, mentoring and coaching
- Hiring new engineers as needed, and helping other teams with their hiring goals
- Building a scalable analytical architecture that’ll power our CDP and CRM offerings
- 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
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
About OpenTable
OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), has been proudly serving restaurants for over 25 years—resulting in a network of over 55,000 restaurants, bars, and wineries around the world.
From "Where should we eat?" to "Your table is ready," OpenTable is the bridge between restaurants and diners.
For restaurants, OpenTable is an all-in-one solution that helps streamline FOH and BOH operations, puts them in front of new guests, and backs it all up with 24/7 customer support in 240 languages. Plus, OpenTable is integrated with hundreds of technology partners to help restaurants run seamlessly. All so restaurants can focus on what they do best: providing amazing hospitality and food.
For diners, it's the easiest way to discover new restaurants with personalized recommendations, data-backed lists, curated guides and more, and manage all your reservations through an intuitive app. After all, dining out is better when it runs smoothly on both sides of the table.
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You have a strong software engineering background with backend applications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience leading the development of scalable backend applications, including 1+ years of building analytical, data-intensive applications
- You have proven experience in mentoring engineers and leading technical projects, and you are looking to grow as a people manager
- You have an empathetic mindset and enjoy working with developers, designers and product owners of all career levels
- You are growth-oriented, driven and obsessed with continuous improvement
- You bring a strong sense of ownership and accountability to your work
- You’re comfortable architecting systems end to end, and managing full-stack teams
- You have driven successful projects from technical planning all the way to production
- You are proficient in communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, and see communication as the cornerstone of building sustainable teams
- You enjoy growing other engineers in their career journey
- Please consider applying if this role sounds interesting to you even if you don’t meet all the requirements. A computer science degree is not required to join OpenTable
What the job involves
- The Guest Platform team, within the Hospitality line of business, is the backbone of our CRM system
- We build and operate the scalable, reliable backend systems for the guest-centric workflows in our restaurant product
- Our mission is to empower restaurants with analytics and insights about their guests, enabling them to make smarter decisions and provide an elevated hospitality experience
- We’re looking for an engineering manager to oversee our Guest Data Platform team
- As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the team's technical vision, strategy, execution, and the growth of our talented senior and principal product engineers and bridge the gap between product engineering and data engineering
- You will partner closely with leaders in Product, Design, Data Engineering, Data Science, and other engineering groups to translate complex business needs into a scalable and forward-looking data architecture
- This is a high-impact role where you will define the future of analytical products in the Hospitality LOB at OpenTable, driving technical strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
- Our data platform is built on a modern, cloud-native stack. While experience with our exact tools isn't required, a strong background in similar technologies is essential
- Our ecosystem includes technologies for data ingestion (CDC and Kafka), processing (Spark), storage (Databricks/S3), and orchestration (Airflow)
- Data engineering systems primarily use Python and SQL, and our product-facing backend applications are built on Java/Spring that run on an on-prem Kubernetes cluster
- We use MongoDB, and ElasticSearch as our primary operational data store
- Managing the outcomes and quality of the engineering team consisting of full-stack engineers
- Continuously improving our processes using your experience and expertise
- Providing development updates to stakeholders within and outside of the team
- Growing engineers through feedback, mentoring and coaching
- Hiring new engineers as needed, and helping other teams with their hiring goals
- Building a scalable analytical architecture that’ll power our CDP and CRM offerings
- 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
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
About OpenTable
OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), has been proudly serving restaurants for over 25 years—resulting in a network of over 55,000 restaurants, bars, and wineries around the world.
From "Where should we eat?" to "Your table is ready," OpenTable is the bridge between restaurants and diners.
For restaurants, OpenTable is an all-in-one solution that helps streamline FOH and BOH operations, puts them in front of new guests, and backs it all up with 24/7 customer support in 240 languages. Plus, OpenTable is integrated with hundreds of technology partners to help restaurants run seamlessly. All so restaurants can focus on what they do best: providing amazing hospitality and food.
For diners, it's the easiest way to discover new restaurants with personalized recommendations, data-backed lists, curated guides and more, and manage all your reservations through an intuitive app. After all, dining out is better when it runs smoothly on both sides of the table.