Engineering Manager - Partner Platform

What You Will Do

• Build and lead a high performing team: Create a strong and inclusive team culture grounded in trust, accountability, and clear expectations. Coach engineers across all levels, providing direct feedback and managing performance to develop senior and staff-level talent.
• Define API standards and excellence: Set the technical direction for our partner-facing interfaces. Drive architectural decisions that prioritize API performance, consistency, and a world-class developer experience. Establish rigorous standards for API security, ensuring all external access is protected and audited.
• Ensure resilience and fault tolerance: Architect systems for failure isolation and fault tolerance. You will be accountable for the reliability of our integrations, ensuring that issues in partner systems do not degrade OpenTable’s core platform performance or correctness.
• Drive partner-centric delivery: Translate partner needs and product goals into clear engineering priorities. Manage complex dependencies with external platforms like Google and Amazon, eliminating blockers and ensuring integrations hit performance targets and deliver business impact.
• Scale agentic and third-party access: Own the full lifecycle of the platforms managing agentic access to our systems. Use data to inform technical investments in high-throughput API gateways and measuring the success of our developer ecosystem.
• What We Are Looking For
• API & Integration Leadership: Deep experience building and operating high-scale, public-facing APIs. Strong fundamentals in API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), versioning, and developer experience. Proven ability to design for resiliency, failure isolation, and high availability in distributed environments.
• Security & Performance Mindset: Experience implementing robust API security protocols (OAuth, JWT, Rate Limiting) and managing high-throughput traffic. Ability to optimize for low latency while maintaining strict data consistency across partner boundaries.
• People & Stakeholder Management: Experience managing and developing engineers, including senior contributors. Strong communication skills to partner with external engineering teams at major tech companies and internal Product and Design stakeholders.
• Nice to have
• Experience with marketplaces, search, or transaction heavy systems.