Staff Engineer - WebStack (Localisation Infrastructure)

This hybrid role requires working in the office two days per week.

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 Staff Engineer on the WebStack team, you will provide overall technical leadership and architectural vision for the foundational web platform and global localisation infrastructure powering OpenTable’s diner experiences. In this role, you will combine deep, hands-on technical expertise with strategic direction to build scalable, high-performance web systems and developer tooling across distributed engineering teams. You will partner with cross-organizational stakeholders to establish architectural roadmaps, eliminate engineering friction, and optimize content workflows across global locales. Your leadership will raise the overall software engineering craft while driving platform velocity, internationalization resilience, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision and architectural roadmaps for the shared diner web platform and global localization infrastructure.
• Architect and evolve high-performance, full-stack applications and services utilizing Node.js, React, TypeScript, Fastify, and GraphQL.
• Design and deliver developer platform tooling—including build automation, test frameworks, code generation, and linting—to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Partner cross-functionally across organizations to establish shared architectural standards, unify technical direction, and solve multi-team pain points.
• Strengthen platform observability, container orchestration, and reliability across modern telemetry stacks (e.g., Docker, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Mentor senior engineers, cultivate inclusive technical decision-making, and facilitate comprehensive architecture and code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating high-scale web platforms.
• Demonstrated track record of technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and guiding cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Deep full-stack proficiency with modern web architectures, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, and API design (such as GraphQL or REST).
• Hands-on experience architecting developer workflows, build systems, CI/CD automation, and testing frameworks at scale.
• Proven expertise with web observability, logging, and containerized runtime environments (e.g., Docker, Grafana, ELK Stack).

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise designing and scaling internationalization (i18n), localization (l10n), or multi-lingual translation pipelines.
• Deep experience optimizing modern web bundling and compilation toolchains (such as Esbuild, SWC, Vite, or Webpack).
• Experience architecting and deploying distributed services across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity designing data models and access layers using relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) or document (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
• Active history of contributing to developer tooling or web-focused open-source communities.

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
• 20 days of paid time off
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life and Disability insurance

The best connections happen face-to-face, whether you’re sitting down to dinner or having coffee with a coworker. That’s why OpenTable has adopted a hybrid workplace model. This role aligns with that approach, with an expectation of coming into the office two days a week—giving employees the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration and flexibility.

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.

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 out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

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