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Engineering Manager - Booking Platform

OpenTable · Toronto, Canada

Posted about a month ago · $160,000-$190,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
43 days
OpenTable's roles stay open a median of 47 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
44% of OpenTable's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at OpenTable
high
60 stale, 4 reposted of 108 open
Hiring momentum
144 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-27

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from OpenTable's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for OpenTable.

About this role

The Engineering Manager will lead backend engineering teams responsible for OpenTable's Diner Platform, focusing on systems that support reservations and availability. This role involves hands-on leadership, shaping technical direction, and ensuring high standards for system reliability and performance. The manager will also work closely with product and design teams to translate business goals into engineering priorities while fostering a strong team culture.

Our read on this posting4.0out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of OpenTable as an employer.

What you need

  • Experience building and operating distributed, high availability backend systems
  • Strong system design fundamentals including APIs, data modeling, scalability, and resiliency
  • Experience with event driven architectures and modern backend stacks such as .NET, Java, or similar technologies
  • Ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous and high stakes environments
  • Experience managing and developing engineers, including senior individual contributors
  • A leadership style grounded in clarity, accountability, and respect

Nice to have

  • Experience with marketplaces, search, or transaction heavy systems
  • Experience operating multi region, low latency systems
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure
  • Experience evolving legacy systems while continuing to deliver customer value

What you get

  • Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
  • Company-wide week off a year
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

Worth weighing

  • Hybrid role requiring in-office work two days a week
  • No specific mention of the technology stack beyond .NET and Java, which may imply a focus on legacy systems
  • The role may require managing communications outside of regular working hours due to global operations

Summarised from OpenTable's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by OpenTable on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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