Staff Build Platform Engineer, Owner.com
Mobile
$240-250k
Plus pre‑IPO equity
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Be an early applicant
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-250k
Plus pre‑IPO equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give independent restaurants the infrastructure tools they need to compete with larger corporations.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years as a Build, CI/CD, or Release Engineer, with strong ownership of automation pipelines in production environments
- Proven, recent hands-on ownership of iOS build pipelines: code signing, provisioning, Fastlane or Xcode Cloud automation, TestFlight/App Store delivery — for teams shipping multiple iOS apps per year
- Experience building and operating Android CI/CD pipelines: including Gradle, keystore management, .aab signing, Play Store upload
- Deep familiarity with CI/CD orchestration tools (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitrise), runners management, and certificates/security models
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Fastlane config languages)
- Infrastructure-as-code chops (Terraform/CloudFormation), containerization (Docker), and runner provisioning
- Solid grasp of distributed build topology, artifact caching, and scaling runners on-demand
- Ability to debug build failures across layers—local machine, remote runner, CI agent, or test environment
- Excellent written and spoke communication—able to document flows, onboarding, and provide technical training
Desirable
- Experience working in fast-growing mobile teams shipping to both App Store and Google Play
- Exposure to GitOps or mobile-focused platforms (App Center, Bitrise Enterprise, Codemagic)
- Familiarity with cross‑platform apps (React Native, Flutter) and their idiosyncratic build flows
- Prior experience operating self-hosted macOS build farms or dealing with Apple’s signing complexities at scale
- Past work in regulated environments (PCI‑DSS, SOC 2) that required built-in signing and verification pipelines
- Background in SRE platform or DevOps roles with a focus on latency SLIs, error budgets for build systems
What the job involves
- Owner.com’s restaurant‑commerce platform is growing rapidly, and our build pipelines must keep pace
- We’re hiring a mission‑driven Staff Build Engineer to own CI/CD across backend, frontend, AND mobile—iOS build pipeline experience is absolutely required
- You’ll ensure engineers can ship confidently to production and App Stores, quickly and reliably, with minimal overhead and maximal uptime
- Your builds power everything from Node.js microservices and web storefronts to iOS and Android apps used by restaurants, diners, and Owner.com’s back‑office teams
- Own and scale build automation — design, build, and maintain our CI/CD infrastructure (pipelines, runners, artifact storage, signing agents, self-hosted macOS runners); ensure developers across backend, frontend, and mobile can iterate quickly without worrying about builds breaking down
- Take charge of our mobile pipelines, with particular focus on iOS: automate versioning, provisioning profile management, keychain handling, automated signing, .ipa generation, TestFlight distribution, and App Store submission via Fastlane or native tooling
- Embed quality and traceability into build stages — integrate linting, on-device tests (XCTest, Espresso, Appium), code coverage metrics, and build-state dashboards to reduce flakiness and turnaround time
- Apply an SRE mindset to delivery — model build success/failure ratios as SLIs, define error budgets, track pipeline latency (time to green), and build alerts so broken builds are fixed within minutes
- Automate for speed and reliability — build caching, parallel job orchestration, staging environment mirroring (via Terraform), and fast rollback workflows so every pipeline is idempotent and traceable
- Champion cross-team collaboration — coach developers on writing reliable Makefile/Gradle/Xcode configurations, secure signing practices, and branching models
- Lead incident response for build failure — serve on rotational pager for CI systems, drive blameless post-mortems, and automate resilient fallback logic (e.g. fallback runners, sourced caching)
- Strategize adoption of next-gen tools — evaluate options like GitHub’s macOS runners, Bamboo, Bitrise, or Codemagic to support future iOS scale and cross-platform parity
- Who you’ll work with:
- Engineers across backend, frontend, and mobile in multiple time zones
- Quality and SRE teams to drive observability and incident workflows
- Product and restaurant‑ops teams to align build and release cadence with customer delivery timelines
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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