1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate resilient low-latency backend services and APIs using C#/.NET and Java.
- Architect distributed-system mechanisms including retry logic, rollbacks, failure handling, and multi-region routing.
- Break ambiguous product requirements into incremental engineering milestones with Product, TPM, and platform partners.
- Author automated tests, improve observability, and conduct design and code reviews.
- Lead production triage, root-cause analysis, and blameless post-incident reviews.
- Use AI-assisted development tooling responsibly to improve delivery, test coverage, and diagnostics.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing, building, and operating production backend services using C#/.NET, Java, or an equivalent object-oriented ecosystem.
- At least 3 years of experience building data access layers and optimizing queries with relational databases and distributed caches.
- At least 3 years of experience implementing event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines using platforms such as Apache Kafka.
- Demonstrated experience delivering fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems with observability, tracing, and metrics instrumentation.
- Hands-on experience building comprehensive automated unit and integration testing suites for critical workflows.
- Preferred experience with high-concurrency booking, inventory, marketplace, or transaction-heavy platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of payment processing and financial reservation workflows such as authorization holds, deposits, or prepayments.
- Preferred experience modernizing services, decomposing monoliths into distributed microservices, or managing cross-region state replication.
- Preferred ability to mentor engineers, establish software delivery standards, and drive cross-functional technical alignment.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an expectation of two days per week in the Toronto office.
- Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth and a company-paid Headspace subscription.
- Annual company-wide week off.
- Paid parental leave, paid vacation, birthday time off, paid volunteer time, and 20 days of paid time off.
- Development Dollars, leadership development, and access to thousands of on-demand e-learning courses.
- Travel discounts and Employee Resource Groups.
- Private health and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, and other stated health, retirement, leave, and holiday benefits.
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About OpenTable
OpenTable builds an online restaurant reservations marketplace for diners and reservation, guest management, and operations software for restaurants, sold via subscriptions and per-cover fees. Its consumer apps and integrations power bookings across 70,000+ restaurants worldwide and connect with POS and other hospitality systems. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenTable is part of Booking Holdings.