SENIOR FRONT END ENGINEER  JOB TYPE: Fulltime LOCATION: San Francisco, CA   DEPARTMENT: Engineering 

 

At OpenTable, 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 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!

 

Job Description:

You’d join OpenTable’s Promoted Inventory (PI) team, a full-stack team that is responsible for building out the marketplace platform. We are also building a suite of cutting edge products into the marketplace platform, targeted to our growing restaurant base. The team is cross-functional, front end and back end sit together, co-located with product, design and delivery management. We use agile development methods to continuously deliver production ready code.

Front End Engineers on the PI team build and own complex web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks, with a desire to achieve great design, performance, quality and continuously evolve our technology stack.

You will be responsible for sound technical execution through hands-on development, automated testing, and prototyping on our flagship product called Guest Center. Guest Center allows thousands of restaurants build inventory, set availability in real time, and manage operations.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• A passion for building great products and delivering them to customers.
• Demonstrate your outstanding past work.
• Confidence in your abilities, including working collaboratively with others.
• Maintain a sense of humor, and have fun while juggling concurrent initiatives.
• An eagerness to produce results using sound front end standards and practices.
• Excitement for OpenTable and what we are trying to achieve.

 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience as a Front End Engineer.
• Advanced level knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5.
• Experience with Javascript frameworks like React and Angular.
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub.  
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team.
• Experience working in an agile-based methodology.
• Experience in unit and integration testing.

 

OPTIONAL, BUT A MAJOR PLUS:

• Full stack web development.
• Proficiency in Node.js
• Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or PostCSS.
• Experience with Docker, and continuous deployment.

 

About OpenTable

OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 25 million diners per month via online bookings across approximately 45,000 restaurants.

Since its inception in 1998, OpenTable has seated more than 1.5 billion diners in over 20 countries.  The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and the OpenTable service is available throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the UK and may more locations.

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