Software Engineer II; Hybrid

Position: Software Engineer II (Hybrid )
This will be a remote role to start, with plans to transition to hybrid in-office 2x/week located in downtown Toronto.

With millions of diners, 60,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, Open Table, 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 Open Table 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.

At Open Table, 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 thousands of restaurants around the globe use our products. If you are excited by constantly meaningful 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.

What You’ll Work On
Our team develops and maintains core backend systems for the Open Table For Restaurants product. Our systems are responsible for determining which tables at a restaurant are available at various times and party configurations based on a system of constraints specified by each restaurant. Our systems are also responsible for booking reservations and syncing their data in real-time to the iPads that power the Open Table front-of-house experience for our restaurants.

We operate in an environment where reliability and uptime are critical while operating at a large scale.

We work on a variety of projects which include both product development and technical infrastructure upgrades. Examples of recent projects include: allowing diners to instantly book a restaurant’s private room; automatic cancellation of reservations for diners who haven’t paid a required deposit; and improving the ability of our microservices to run in multiple data centers.

Our team is highly collaborative: we spend time debating what database architecture to implement for a new feature, or what the right technical solution is to a newly‑reported bug. We practice continuous delivery, trunk‑based development, code review, and pair programming. Automated testing is also critical for our team.

Requirements

You have 3 or more years of full‑time professional experience working in a team environment

You have strong communication skills, especially the ability to represent the technical trade‑offs between different potential solutions

You reliably deliver on commitments you’ve made

You write code that is readable and maintainable, and is covered by automated tests

You are proficient in C# (being proficient in Java as well is a bonus)

You know the principles of object‑oriented‑programming and common design patterns

You have experience with databases (either SQL or No

SQL) and understand core concepts such as primary keys and indexes

You’ve worked on codebases that were multiple years old before you started working on it

You adopt emerging AI technologies like Copilot and ChatGPT to enhance your workflow, while also taking ownership of the results produced by these technologies and carefully checking them for accuracy.

What else would make me stand out?

Experience with event‑driven architecture, especially Apache Kafka

Experience with domain‑driven design

Experience with microservices

Experience with multithreading and concurrent programming

Experience with MongoDB

Experience with caching (local memory, memcached, Redis, etc)

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits and Perks

Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

Focus on mental health and well‑being:

Company‑paid therapy sessions through Spring Health

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!)

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