Senior Software Engineer, Owner.com
Mobile Platform, POS
$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 applications, including owning release processes end-to-end — not just participating in them
- Strong experience with TypeScript
- Experience building and maintaining mobile applications in production environments where quality and uptime actually matter — React Native experience is a strong plus; experience with managed device fleets, always-on hardware, or enterprise mobile deployments is a meaningful differentiator
- Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and driving meaningful release automation — a track record of moving teams toward more reliable, less manual delivery processes
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling — Datadog, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or equivalent. Experience instrumenting mobile or edge environments where standard tooling requires adaptation is a strong plus
- Track record of improving operational visibility — building dashboards, defining alerting thresholds, diagnosing production issues, and making monitoring accessible to a whole team
- Comfort navigating complex external systems — Apple/Google developer workflows, certificates, provisioning, MDM platforms, store review processes, and compliance requirements
- Experience at a product-focused startup, scale-up, or technology company
- Strong sense of ownership, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to identifying and solving ambiguous, cross-cutting problems
What the job involves
- At Owner, we help independent restaurant brands compete — and win. Our mobile apps are one of the most direct ways we do that: a branded, high-quality experience that lets restaurants own their customer relationships, drive direct orders, and build loyalty without paying a cut to third-party platforms. Thousands of restaurant brands across the United States trust those apps to represent them every day
- We're looking for a senior engineer who cares deeply about building software that doesn't just ship — it holds up. At our scale, reliability isn't optional. The engineers who thrive here obsess over making things better for customers, take ownership without being asked, and find ways to make the whole team faster and more confident in what they ship
- This role sits at the intersection of platform excellence and customer impact. You'll own the systems and processes that keep our mobile apps healthy, current, and resilient — from release automation and observability to CI/CD and dependency health. We move fast, and we hold a high bar. Your job is to make sure those two things stay compatible as we grow
- If you want to build and own the platform that powers mobile apps for thousands of restaurant brands — and raise the bar for how we do it — this is that role
- This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada. For San Francisco-based candidates: we have a new HQ in the Presidio for optional in-person collaboration opportunities!
- Own the release pipeline — build and maintain the systems that take code from merged to production reliably, repeatably, and with minimal manual intervention across iOS and Android
- Advance our release automation — build toward fully automated, push-button deploys and rollbacks with Slack-posted status and minimal manual intervention as the default path
- Strengthen performance monitoring and observability — expand instrumentation, define alerting thresholds, build domain-level SLA dashboards, and ensure visibility across our React Native and Android environments, including offline-first scenarios
- Improve CI/CD pipeline speed and reliability — reduce build times, improve E2E test stability, integrate feature flag automation, and level up the testing infrastructure engineers depend on every day
- Scale observability knowledge across the team — create dashboards, runbooks, and instrumentation patterns that any engineer can use and extend, not just specialists
- Keep the platform healthy — React Native and dependency updates, certificate management, Apple/Google store compliance, and MDM tooling as the fleet scales
- Leverage AI tools to build automations at scale across release and distribution workflows
- Help us build a great team — interview candidates, refer strong engineers, and shape engineering culture
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: $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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