Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants. We're building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business. It powers everything from the restaurant's website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.

Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically. Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it. Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.

We're starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online. But it's not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive. Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we'll scale it into every other local business type. In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.

Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website. More importantly, we've helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.

Our team is now in the low hundreds. We've got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe. We'll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.

Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!

We are looking for a mission-driven Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about building reliable, high-impact systems and takes pride in owning complex problems end to end. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to be a technical leader on business-critical backend systems - someone who understands how product strategy, data, and infrastructure come together to drive real customer outcomes at scale.

This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada. For San Francisco-based candidates - we also have a new HQ in the Presidio for optional in-person collaboration.

Our Tech Stack:

• Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue
• Backend: Node.js, Mongo, Typescript everywhere

The impact you'll have:

• Build new products and features 0 to 1
• Take ownership of projects from conception all the way to shipping, ensuring modular, maintainable, and high-quality code
• Deliver value to our end users across our entire system while considering performance, scale, security, and maintainability
• Shape our product direction by talking to users and collaborating with other teammates in feature brainstorms/roadmap planning
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical guidance to peers, helping to improve overall team quality
• Help us build a great team — interview candidates, refer great engineers, etc.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production
• Strong experience with TypeScript and backend technologies (Node.js, databases, distributed systems)
• Demonstrated ownership of systems running at scale, with an emphasis on reliability and performance
• A product-oriented engineering mindset — you understand the "why" behind what you're building
• Experience collaborating closely with Product and Design partners
• Strong communication skills and a proactive approach to identifying and solving problems
• A sense of ownership, curiosity, and commitment to continuous learning

Nice to have experience in one or more of the following:

• E-commerce or consumer platforms
• Loyalty or rewards programs
• Marketing or lifecycle systems
• Large-scale, high-traffic consumer systems

Compensation and benefits:

• The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $190K-220K depending on level, location and experience, plus a generous pre-IPO equity package
• Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, work from anywhere (remote-first workplace), unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!

Communication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address. We do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or "spam" and do not respond.