Staff Engineer ( Front End)

Location: Remote - India 

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 and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.

About the Role:

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

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment

• Work across the company by developing relationships with other teams to ensure the right architectural and technical direction moving forward

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications using Node.js, React, Redux, Fastify, GraphQL, and TypeScript

• Design, develop, and maintain tools and utilities that improve the developer experience, such as build automation, code generation, linting, formatting, and testing frameworks

• Collaborate with developers across teams to understand their needs and pain points, and develop solutions to streamline their workflows and increase productivity

• Contribute to the improvement of development processes, best practices, and coding standards to ensure a consistent and efficient development environment

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our infrastructure components, including Docker, Grafana, ELK Stack

• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely and efficient manner

• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends

Required Qualifications and Skills: 

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in web development, preferably with Node.js, React, Redux, and TypeScript

• Strong technical leadership skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

• Strong understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Experience with back-end development using Node.js, Fastify, and GraphQL

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as StatsD, Grafana, ELK Stack

• Proficient in version control systems like Git

• Strong understanding of software development workflows, processes, and best practices
  

Nice to have Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience with Esbuild, SWC, Webpack, or other build tools

• Experience with developer tooling ecosystems such as Babel, ESLint, Prettier, Jest, or Cypress

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or MongoDB databases

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Contribution to open-source projects

Benefits and Perks

• 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

• 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

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.

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.