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
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