Senior Software Engineer, Owner.com
Identity & Access Management
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Open for applications
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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 of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them
- Comfort with Typescript or Javascript — with deep experience in building web-scale applications
- Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability
- Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don’t wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving
What the job involves
- We’re building the next generation of our identity and access platform, and we need an exceptional engineer to help us get there
- You’ll join a small, high-trust team with direct ownership over login, session management, permissions, roles, service-to-service auth, and the APIs and infrastructure every product team at Owner builds on top of
- This is a rare opportunity to shape a foundational security platform at a fast-growing company — one that has to scale with our product surface, our customer base, and the complexity of the restaurants we serve
- Help build the foundation for secure access at Owner — design and improve the authentication and authorization systems that power every product surface across the platform
- Own critical auth infrastructure end to end — contribute to systems for login, sessions, token management, service-to-service auth, account security, and access enforcement
- Improve reliability and observability — instrument auth services with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks needed to detect issues quickly and keep critical access flows healthy
- Raise the security bar — identify risks, improve controls, and help ensure authentication and authorization are designed thoughtfully from the beginning, not added as an afterthought
- 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 authentication and authorization team — you’ll work closely with a tight-knit group of engineers who own identity and access end to end
- Engineers across product, platform, infrastructure, and security — auth is a foundation every team depends on, so you’ll partner closely on APIs, access patterns, and implementation standards
- Product and Design — to ensure access flows are secure, intuitive, and aligned with the needs of restaurants and internal teams
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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