Hybrid Staff Software Engineer – Frontend

at OpenTable

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer – Frontend
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: CA$160,000 - CA$190,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: JavaScript, Node.js, React, Redux, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Core technical leader and architect for mission-critical Availability Planning system. Actively writing and reviewing code in React, Redux, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Actively write and review mission-critical code in React, Redux, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Define and implement the technical vision for the Availability Planning system.
• Design and build elegant, reusable abstractions and an integrated layer between the UI and backend.
• Act as a force multiplier, elevating the coding standards and practices of the entire team through meticulous code reviews and mentorship.

Requirements

• 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.
• Deep, expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Proven experience investing deeply in code architecture and driving multi-year technical roadmaps on large, established codebases.
• Exceptional ability to drive large, cross-functional projects from the early planning stage all the way into production.
• 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).
• A passion for rigorous quality control and pixel-perfect design implementation through the use of both automated and manual testing as well as careful code reviews.
• You embrace full ownership over your systems and adopt modern tools (like AI helpers) to enhance efficiency, while maintaining rigorous standards for code quality and accuracy.

Benefits

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• 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
• 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
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life and Disability insurance