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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Backend

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Owner is an AI-native system helping local business owners, starting with restaurants, manage their businesses and grow sales and profits. The Senior Backend Engineer will build and operate reliable, high-impact backend systems, own projects from conception through delivery, contribute to product direction, and provide technical leadership to peers.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • 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 atechnical leader on business-critical backend systems - someone who understands how product strategy, data, and infrastructure come together to drive real customer outcomes at scale
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Strong experience with TypeScript and backend technologies ([Node.js](http://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
  • E-commerce or consumer platforms
  • Loyalty or rewards programs
  • Marketing or lifecycle systems
  • Large-scale, high-traffic consumer systems

Benefits

  • A generous pre-IPO equity package
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Work from anywhere (remote-first workplace)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Extra fun perks

Company Overview

  • We're building AI that every local business owner will use to succeed, starting with restaurants. owner.com/builders-wanted It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://owner.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Owner.com has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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