Workplace
hybrid
Employment
Internship
Published
Aug 11, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
With millions of diners, 70,000+ 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 Job
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain the core backend systems powering the OpenTable for Restaurants platform, directly impacting real-time reservation availability and data synchronization across global surfaces. You will lead high-scale product development and technical infrastructure upgrades, from enabling advanced dining configurations to optimizing multi-data-center microservices. Working within a highly collaborative team environment, you will drive modern development practices such as continuous delivery, trunk-based development, and pair programming. In this role, your technical contributions will ensure the absolute reliability, scale, and uptime of mission-critical systems that power thousands of frontline restaurant experiences.
Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain high-scale backend systems to compute real-time table availability and reservation workflows.
• Drive product features and technical infrastructure upgrades from early planning phases all the way to production deployment.
• Build and optimize microservices architectures to support multi-data-center scalability and real-time data synchronization.
Requirements
Department: Product Engineering