Senior Backend Software Engineer, Owner.com
Orders Platform
$190-220k
+ Pre-IPO equity package
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Job no longer available
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$190-220k
+ Pre-IPO equity package
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give independent restaurants the infrastructure tools they need to compete with larger corporations.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them
- Strong experience with Kotlin or another JVM language — you're comfortable in the language and can move fast in it
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or event-driven architecture — you understand how to design reliable, scalable event streams and know the failure modes to watch out for
- Solid PostgreSQL and data modeling skills — you think carefully about schema design, can reason about performance, and understand how data model decisions compound over time
- Experience designing and evolving APIs that multiple teams depend on — you know what good API contracts look like and how to maintain them as requirements change
- Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don't wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving
- Experience at a product-focused startup or SaaS company where speed and quality weren't treated as a tradeoff
What the job involves
- Help rebuild the orders model — contribute to redesigning the core data model and APIs to support table service, online ordering, point of sale, and the guest app from a single, reliable foundation — including offline scenarios when restaurants lose connectivity
- Shape the event-driven architecture — help design and evolve our Kafka-based order events so that every downstream system (point of sale, guest app, reporting) gets the data it needs, in the right shape, in real time
- Contribute to the table service launch — help deliver the backend infrastructure needed to support full service restaurants by end of Q2, working closely with the point of sale and guest app teams
- Be the orders authority — partner with engineering leads across online ordering, point of sale, and the guest app to define contracts, APIs, and data standards that will scale with the business
- Improve reliability and observability — instrument the orders service with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks the team needs to catch and resolve issues fast
- Leverage AI tools to move faster — use AI tooling to accelerate your work, from writing and reviewing code to exploring solutions and automating repetitive tasks
- Help us build a great team — interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build
- Who you'll work with:
- A small, focused orders platform pod — you'll work closely with a tight-knit group of engineers who own the orders domain end to end
- Engineers across point of sale, online ordering, and the guest app — the orders service is the backbone they all depend on, so you'll partner closely on API contracts, event schemas, and data standards
- Product and Design — to align on what table service and future order flows need to look and feel like under the hood
- Real restaurant owners — you'll spend time visiting and talking to sellers in the field to understand their needs firsthand, and bring that context back to how the platform evolves
Our take
The Pandemic caused a major upheaval in the US restaurant industry. Smaller operations struggled to stay afloat amidst brick-and-mortar closures, and as the demand for home delivery soared their margins were tightened further by hefty third-party delivery app charges. Add to that the fact that consumers become customers of the delivery app, not the restaurant itself, and it’s a development that has spelt real trouble for independent locales. Owner has set out to level the playing field.
Owner’s platform provides independent restaurants with the infrastructure they need to take control of their business without deferring to third-party apps like GrubHub and Deliveroo. It offers marketing, online ordering, and support solutions to over 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. The company has taken impressive first strides, too: they have a 7 figure run-rate, over 105% monthly revenue retention, and helped restaurants avoid millions in online order platform fees.
It’s a hugely attractive proposition for independent business owners, and research suggests it’s a winning idea for consumers too. Over 60% say they’d prefer to deal with restaurants directly, but historically the infrastructure simply hasn’t been in place to do so. With Owner seeing impressive traction by tripling its customers between 2023 and 2024, it's unsurprising that its 2025 funding is being channelled into engineering and design teams, alongside the development of new tools.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $185.7m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere: Our flexible policy lets you work from wherever you want.
- Equity in Owner: All full-time employees in eligible countries receive pre-IPO equity in Owner.
- Benefits to support your success: We set you up for success where you are and where you’re going.
- Healthcare Coverage: We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans.
- Unlimited PTO: Your schedule, your choice. We give our team members full empowerment to choose the time they want to work, and don’t micro-manage working hours.
- Team retreats: We love building real friendships with everyone that we work with, so we do several retreats per year – to deepen our friendships, celebrate our wins, and plan our future.
Company HQ
Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adam Guild
(Co-Founder & CEO)Thiel Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
Dean Bloembergen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Co-founder and CTO at Marble Technologies, Forbes 30 under 30.
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