Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Grader) at Owner.com | Torre
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Grader)

You'll own the backend of a strategic AI product, empowering local businesses to thrive online.
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About OwnerOwner 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—powering everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.Product philosophyMost 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 visionWe’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.Our tractionSince 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 website.More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.Where we workOwner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. Most teammates are distributed throughout the globe.This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States and Canada.About the roleGrader is Owner's free restaurant health report. A restaurant owner submits their URL and gets a clear view of where they're losing money online: website performance, Google presence, menu quality, and more.It’s one of the most visible products we build and one of the fastest-growing, with significant scale growth ahead and new AI-powered scoring capabilities launching on top of it. The backend powering all of this needs to be fast, resilient, and built to scale.If you want to own the backend of one of Owner's most strategically important products and set the platform foundation before a major expansion—this is that role.The impact you'll haveOwn the backend services and data pipelines that power Grader scans end-to-end—from ingesting third-party presence signals (Google, Yelp, menus, LLM GEO signals) to serving results reliably at scale.Harden the platform before expansion—reduce latency, increase uptime, and build the observability and alerting layer the team needs to confidently scale Grader into new scoring dimensions.Establish platform foundations—shared abstractions, operational runbooks, and architectural patterns that reduce toil and give other engineers a reliable base to build on.Partner closely with PLG product and the AI Agents team as Grader evolves into a broader AI-powered tool for restaurant owners.What we're looking for7+ years, with meaningful time owning backend services in production.Experience building and operating data pipelines, third-party integrations, and async processing systems at scale.Proven track record improving system reliability—observability, alerting, incident reduction, and making operational health a team habit.Experience at a product-focused startup or scale-up where you owned systems end-to-end.High degree of cross-functional collaboration—past colleagues in product, design, and business would speak highly of your teamwork.Strong sense of ownership and drive, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to identifying and solving problems.Our Tech StackBackend: Node.js, TypeScriptDatabases: MongoDB, PostgreSQLInfrastructure & Observability: Datadog, AWS, TemporalPay and benefitsThe estimated starting base salary range for this role is $240K-250K 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!Notice - Employment ScamsCommunication 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.
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