Senior Quality Engineer, Owner.com
$180-200k
+ Pre-IPO equity package
More information about location
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Job no longer available
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-200k
+ Pre-IPO equity package
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give independent restaurants the infrastructure tools they need to compete with larger corporations.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language used for automation (e.g. Python, TypeScript, Go)
- Hands‑on experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, Cypress, etc.) and automation tools (Testcontainers, Docker‑Compose, etc.)
- Proven track record integrating testing deeply into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, Flux CD) with intelligent test execution and automated analysis
- Familiarity with test environments: virtualizing dependencies, using service‑virtualization or testcontainers to isolate CI from production services
- Understanding of all layers of testing: unit, integration, end‑to‑end, performance, contract, security, including metrics and test flakiness tracking
- Strong debugging and analytical skills; experience diagnosing flakes, CI inefficiencies, or automation bottlenecks
- Excellent written and verbal communication: you break complex topics into actionable insights and instructions
- Passion for building systems that empower engineers
Desirable
- Experience working at scale: test platforms that support hundreds of engineers or microservices, and heavy backend workloads
- Familiarity with performance/load testing platforms like k6, JMeter, Locust, or chaos‑engineering tools
- Exposure to mobile CI pipelines in React Native or Flutter and mobile QA automation frameworks
- Experience in regulated environments: PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, threat modeling or automated security tests woven into CI/CD
- Knowledge of GitOps or release‑orchestration tools (e.g. Argo CD, Spinnaker) as part of quality gate workflows
- Previous work in infrastructure‑oriented ops or SRE roles that focused on availability, response time, and error budgeting
What the job involves
- We're seeking a mission‑driven Senior Quality Engineer to build out a world‑class test platform that makes shipping secure, reliable, and fast. You’ll split time between quality‑infrastructure engineering (designing for shift‑left CI/CD, automation, and observability) and quality enablement (tools, coaching, and cultural embedding)
- Your work will directly empower the websites, ordering flows, mobile apps, and back‑office systems that thousands of restaurants - and millions of diners - rely on every day
- Build & scale testing infrastructure: you'll contribute to the architecture and maintenance of test orchestration platforms, test runners, data‑management tools, and developer‑facing quality tooling that support teams—from backend services to React Native apps
- Embed quality into CI/CD pipelines: help evolve GitHub Actions/Buildkite so tests run intelligently on file‑change, parallelized for speed, with built‑in analysis, coverage, flakiness detection, and fast feedback to engineers
- Drive shift‑left and continuous improvement: Collaborate with product and development to implement early testing strategies via contract‑testing, TDD, specification reviews, and risk‑based automated testing that surface defects before deployment
- Own quality observability: build dashboards and metric pipelines to track code coverage, test churn, CI test latency, and reliability trends
- Apply SRE principles to testing reliability: help define and monitor "quality SLIs" (e.g. deploy‑blocking flake rate < 1%) tied to critical flows—helping balance release velocity and acceptance criteria
- Support incident review with a quality lens: participate in postmortems, identify test‑coverage gaps and process enhancements, and help implement improvements across teams
- Champion the "you build it, you test it" philosophy: partner with engineers on best practices, share accessible testing toolkits, and support onboarding of new teams
- Daily collaboration with Backend, Frontend, & Mobile engineering across multiple time zones
- Product & Restaurant Success teams—to align quality metrics and test coverage with business outcomes
- SRE & Platform engineers—to ensure test infrastructure is reliable, performant, and easy to maintain
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
Insights
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.2m
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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