Software Engineer - Frontend

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.

The Availability Planning & Experiences team builds the highly visible, mission‑critical foundation where Open Table’s thousands of global restaurant partners define their operational setup: setting shifts, defining schedules, optimizing table layouts, and creating unique dining events and Experiences.

This work is profoundly impactful. The features you build directly shape the experience of our top‑tier restaurant partners, who frequently come to us with requests that influence our roadmap. You won't just be building features; you'll be influencing the user experience and technical foundation of a product central to both Open Table and our partners' success.

This role offers a unique mix of autonomy and ownership: you will have a real voice in both design and product decisions, ensuring we deliver powerful control without overwhelming complexity.

As a Staff Frontend Engineer in Toronto, you will serve as a core technical leader and hands‑on architect, responsible for tackling the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges within the Availability Planning system. Your primary contribution will be through deep, direct technical execution, system design, and the implementation of large‑scale features.

• Hands‑On System Building:
  You will actively write and review mission‑critical code in React, Redux, Type Script, and JavaScript. This role requires continuous deep engagement with the codebase to drive performance and maintainability.
• Architectural Ownership:
  Define and implement the technical vision for the Availability Planning system. You will own system design and execution, focusing on creating intuitive and scalable UI architectures that can manage immense complexity.
• Frontend Mastery & Quality:
  Design and build elegant, reusable abstractions and an integrated layer between the UI and backend. You will set a high standard for quality, driving sophisticated testing strategies using React Testing Library, Jest, and Cypress.
• Technical Elevation:
  Act as a force multiplier, elevating the coding standards and practices of the entire team through meticulous code reviews and mentorship.

You are a highly experienced engineer ready to translate strategic goals into elegant, production‑ready code while leading technical strategy.

• Extensive Expertise: 7+ years of professional software development experience in a collaborative team environment, with a significant track record in building and scaling large‑scale frontend applications.
• Code Mastery:
  Deep, expert‑level proficiency in JavaScript, Type Script, Node.js, and React. You write code that is readable and maintainable, and you take the time to learn things you are working on that you don’t understand.
• Strategic Architecture:
  Proven experience investing deeply in code architecture and driving multi‑year technical roadmaps on large, established codebases. You excel at creating generic and reusable code.
• Strategic Execution:
  Exceptional ability to drive large, cross‑functional projects from the early planning stage all the way into production.
• Communication and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  The ability to articulate complex technical trade‑offs to product and design partners, as well as experience collaborating closely with designers (e.g., using Figma).
• Quality Champion:…