Who you are

- Technical leadership: 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. Familiarity with data stores, caching technologies like Redis, and high throughput systems. Ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous and high stakes environments

- People leadership: Experience managing and developing engineers, including senior individual contributors. A leadership style grounded in clarity, accountability, and respect. A track record of building strong teams and creating an environment where people can do their best work

- Execution and collaboration: Strong partnership with Product, Design, and cross functional teams. Explicit and effective communication across technical and non technical audiences. A bias toward action and ownership, with a consistent track record of delivering results

- 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 the job involves

- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead critical backend engineering teams that power the core of OpenTable’s Diner Platform

- These teams sit at the center of the platform.



The availability system powers fast and reliable search across a global network of inventory. The reservations system owns the full booking lifecycle, from slot locking through confirmations, changes, payments and downstream events

- This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people leadership with strong technical ownership. You will shape architecture, guide execution, and develop engineers while working in a complex, high scale distributed systems environment

- Build and lead a high performing team: Create a strong and inclusive team culture grounded in trust, accountability, and transparent expectations. Coach engineers across all levels, with a focus on developing senior and staff level talent. Provide direct and actionable feedback, manage performance proactively, and hire and retain exceptional engineers and future leaders

- Own technical direction and quality: Set technical direction across core backend systems in partnership with senior engineers. Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data models, and event driven pipelines. Stay close to the systems by reviewing designs, challenging assumptions, and guiding tradeoffs. Establish and maintain high standards for reliability, scalability,



and operational excellence

- Drive delivery and business impact: Translate product goals into clear engineering priorities and execution plans. Partner closely with Product and Design to reduce ambiguity and make sound decisions. Establish a strong operating rhythm for planning, execution, and continuous improvement. Surface risks early and ensure issues are resolved effectively

- Operate and scale critical systems: Own the full lifecycle from design and development through deployment and operation. Lead through production incidents with clarity and urgency, and ensure follow through strengthens system resilience. Use data to inform technical investments and measure impact

- Contribute across the organization: Collaborate across the Diner Platform and the broader engineering organization. Align team decisions with platform standards while influencing direction with practical insights. Continuously raise the bar for engineering quality, execution, and leadership

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

📌 Engineering Manager (Toronto)
🏢 OpenTable
📍 Toronto