Engineer II (Backend)

This job is 100% remote across 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 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:

OpenTable is looking for an Engineer-II to join the Groups, Identity & Access team to help deliver a secure identity and access platform. As part of this team you will also be building world-class tooling for our most important groups and enterprise customers. This is a hands-on technical role with a dash of leadership and strategy.

You'll be a key member of a multi-functional team that builds and designs OpenTable’s identity and access platform for restaurants globally and will deliver world-class tooling for OpenTable’s most important groups and enterprise customers. We are passionate about building small, independent product development teams – product managers, designers and engineers working together and empowered to make their own decisions.

As an Engineer-II you will be responsible for participating in technical and architectural decisions and implementations of the same to ensure our platforms are scalable, highly available, reliable and have a high performance, especially under peak traffic spikes.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed applications.

• Expertise in Java, Spring framework and Spring Boot, and Hibernate

• Experience working with large-scale, distributed, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and systems, and understanding of the core principles around observability & monitoring, performance, high availability, scalability, reliability and security.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - enjoy working with engineers, designers and product owners.

• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes and message buses like Kafka; proficiency with Git

• Discipline at unit, integration, and acceptance testing

• Strong problem solving skills

• Experience working in an agile-based methodology

• Self-motivated to build and share knowledge and skill; has the ability and desire to mentor as well as be mentored. 

• Dedicated professional who forms opinions and enjoys discussion yet remains personable and approachable.

Nice to have:

• Experience collaborating with remote teams across time zones

• Experience in React JS

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 o ut to your recruiter to request any accommodations.