Staff Engineer (Hybrid, Toronto, Canada)
Staff Engineer (Hybrid, Toronto, Canada)
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Job Description
With millions of diners 60000 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 enables restaurants to focus on what matters most their team their guests and their bottom line while empowering diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.
We believe hospitality is all about taking care of others and that ethos defines our culture. Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact contributing to a global team that includes our sister brand KAYAK and its portfolio of metasearch products.
The Opportunity:
Were looking for a Staff Engineer with deep expertise in the payments domain to help lead the evolution of our payments platform. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in Stripe (especially Stripe Connect) FreedomPay CardConnect and other major payment providers. Knowledge of 3D Secure (3DS) flows chargeback handling tokenization and real-time authorization is essential.
Youll work closely with product design and engineering teams to build secure scalable and delightful payment experiences for both restaurants and diners around the world.
This is a remote-first role with an eventual hybrid schedule (2x/week) planned for our downtown Toronto Canada office.
In this role you will:
- Lead technical direction for payment integrations and architecture with a primary focus on Stripe (Connect Elements PaymentIntents webhooks reconciliation etc.)
- Design and build flexible scalable payment infrastructure that supports integrations with FreedomPay CardConnect and other processors
- Implement and evolve 3DS 2.0 authentication flows fraud prevention strategies and chargeback mitigation techniques
- Collaborate with internal and external partners on PCI compliance tokenization and secure card handling
- Guide a small team of engineers focused on reliability security and performance of our payment services
- Ensure seamless diner and restaurant experiences through robust orchestration across payment providers
- Contribute to payment products across web and mobile including prepaid experiences deposits and CC holds
- Define logging observability and SLA metrics for payments (ELK Grafana custom dashboards)
- Mentor teammates and drive cross-functional alignment on payment-related roadmaps
Were excited about you if you have:
- 5 years of experience working with Java tech stack in the payments ecosystem with strong focus on Stripe (especially Stripe Connect webhooks disputes transfers onboarding)
- Experience integrating with FreedomPay CardConnect or similar enterprise payment platforms
- Deep understanding of 3D Secure protocols tokenization and chargeback workflows
- Solid software engineering fundamentals and experience building with Java Postgres K8s MongoDB Restful APIs
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g. StatsD Grafana ELK stack)
Strong leadership and communication skills with a track record of driving cross-team initiatives - Understanding of PCI-DSS secure key management and best practices for storing/transmitting sensitive data
Bonus Points:
- Youve launched products that handled high-volume payments and know the edge cases inside out
Youve worked with restaurant tech hospitality systems or marketplace platforms - You enjoy pairing great software with delightful customer experiences
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
- 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 upon start
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range including but not limited to external market benchmark data geographic location and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Canada based role is 00 CAD.
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.
Inclusion
Were 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 were building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serveand fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process or on the job were here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
