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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Grader)

Owner · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Owner

Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more. Backed by Redpoint.

About the role

Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you. Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location! Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Owner is the leading all-in-one platform for independent restaurants. Operators use Owner to run their online ordering, websites, menus, marketing, and customer experience. Tens of thousands of restaurants depend on us every day to run their business
  • If you want to own the backend of one of Owner's most strategically important products and set the platform foundation before a major expansion — this is that role
  • This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States and Canada
  • 7+ years, with meaningful time owning backend services in production
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines, third-party integrations, and async processing systems at scale
  • Proven track record improving system reliability — observability, alerting, incident reduction, and making operational health a team habit
More about this role

About Owner

Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.

We’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.

It powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.

Product philosophy

Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.

Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.

Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.

We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.

But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.

Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.

In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed...

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