Android Engineer, OpenTable
AdTech
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2+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Open for applications
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- You have an empathetic mindset and enjoy collaborating with developers, designers, product managers and non-technical stakeholders of all career levels
- Have worked with AdTech before, including Firebase and attribution SDKs
- You are comfortable working with both Android and server-side code (we own the services that power our app, written in Java)
- You have experience with building and maintaining a scalable, modern and performant Android app
- You value testing as a way to ensure a great user experience
- You possess an appetite for continually refining and improving the end-user experience as well as the developer experience
What the job involves
- Our EU engineering team is growing, and we're looking for an Android Engineer in London (in-office 2 days a week) who’ll help us build amazing experiences and dive deep into the data for millions of our diners across the world
- We're searching for a product-aware engineer who is passionate about great UI/UX and someone who enjoys being data-driven to join our team
- You understand the need for engineering excellence with tested, resilient code balanced against the need to move fast and iterate
- You'll be part of the new AdTech team, supporting our data and marketing team to enhance our knowledge of our diner
- This will enable restaurants of all sizes to thrive by creating experiences that make diners come back time after time to find and book the perfect table for every occasion
- This role is all about collaborating across teams to make a difference for customers
- As an Android engineer at OpenTable, you’ll work in a small product squad alongside, iOS Engineers, Web Engineers, Product Designers, Product Managers, QA Testers, Marketing Stakeholders and Data Scientists
- You'll report to an engineering manager, and their mission is to help you develop and grow as an engineer
- Shape the technical roadmap of new data integrations, architecture and scale
- Build new features for diners to discover restaurants on our award-winning Android App, written (almost) entirely in Kotlin, backed by services we own
- Support our marketing campaigns, extending our deeplink capabilities
- Scale the app and take ownership of technical improvements/roadmap
- Craft elegant and practical user interfaces for discovering restaurants on our global app
- Develop experiences for millions of diners and make it easy for them to discover the perfect dining occasions
- Improve yourself and the team by learning new skills and sharing your knowledge with others
- Create a better product by voicing your opinions on how and why we do what we do
- Use data insights and leverage A/B tests heavily to validate our products, allowing us to test and iterate quickly
Application process
- Our interviews are conversational, and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious
- Initial phone call with the hiring manager: ~45 minutes
- Technical interview ~1 hour
- System design interview ~1 hour
- Final Stage Interview: ~1-2 hours with various members of the team, combining technical and non-technical folks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
OpenTable was one of the earliest innovators in the online reservation space, setting up shop in 1998 as a tool to enable restaurants to take bookings online. Rather than charging consumers for the service, OpenTable generates revenue via a monthly subscription and reservation fee from businesses.
Today, the platform is used by tens of thousands of restaurants around the world and seats over 1 billion diners per year. The company was acquired by Booking Holdings – the world's largest travel company – for $2.6 billion in 2014, and remains a subsidiary of the group to this day.
OpenTable is the dominant player in the restaurant reservation software category, with an impressive 45% market share, but does face increasing competition from platforms like Resy, Tock, TableAgent, and many more. Nonetheless, this market leader has garnered an impressive reputation, and there is nothing to say it won't hold on to the dominance it has earned into the future.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2000
$36m
SERIES C
Jan 2000
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $48.2m
Company benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Debby Soo
(CEO, not founder)After graduating from Stanford with a liberal arts major, Debby started their career in investment banking. Thereafter they worked in Google’s Strategic Partnerships Group and then spent a decade at KAYAK, eventually becoming CCO.
People progressing
Joined as a Project Coordinator. Promoted to Lead Project Coordinator after 2 years. Then promoted again to Project Coordinator Manager after 2 years. Now is Director of Global Sales & Services.
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