Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Orders Platform)

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Orders Platform) About Owner 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. Product philosophy 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. Our vision 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. Read our Series C memo here → https://www.owner.com/c Our traction Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over half a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com http://Owner.com website. More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees. Our team 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. Where we work 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! Why we are looking for you At Owner, every restaurant we serve depends on orders working — reliably, accurately, every time. Whether a guest is ordering through our website, a branded app, or sitting at a table, the orders platform is the foundation that makes it possible. We're building the next generation of this platform — something we believe will be industry-defining — and we need an exceptional backend engineer to help us get there. The orders model underpins every product we ship — and it has to work flawlessly even when a restaurant loses their internet connection. Offline reliability isn't a nice-to-have; for a busy restaurant in the middle of a dinner rush, it's everything. You'll join a small, high-trust team with direct ownership over the data model, event architecture, and APIs that every other product team at Owner builds on top of. This is a rare opportunity to help shape a next-generation platform at a fast-growing company — with a real deadline, a real business outcome (full service restaurants by end of Q2), and real impact on thousands of restaurant owners. This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada. Our Tech Stack - Backend: Kotlin Multiplatform - Messaging: Kafka - Databases/Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis - AI Coding Agents: Claude, Codex, and others — we build with AI tooling as a first-class part of how we work - Nice to have: MongoDB, TypeScript The impact you will have - Help rebuild the orders model — contribute to redesigning the core data model and APIs to support table service, online ordering, point of sale, and the guest app from a single, reliable foundation — including offline scenarios when resta ... (truncated, view full listing at source)