Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Platform - Guest App (Remote, United States) Remote - United States

Owner; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first workplace

Pre-IPO equity package

Comprehensive health coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Owner is hiring a Senior Engineer to own the Guest App distribution at scale. You will lead tooling and automation across iOS/Android releases, focusing on building a world-class distribution platform using React Native and TypeScript.

You will collaborate across teams to improve CI/CD, observability, and release processes, enabling thousands of app updates with reliability and speed. This is a remote role with global collaboration and optional in-person HQ opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production applications with end-to-end release ownership.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and mobile development (React Native a plus).
• Experience owning mobile app distribution and release workflows across App Store/Play, with CI/CD improvements.

Responsibilities

• Improve our mobile developer experience from local setup to CI/CD for the entire Guest App.
• Build guardrails, tooling, and automation to enable shipping changes safely at scale.
• Increase release reliability and app freshness across Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Strengthen observability and operational workflows to diagnose issues quickly.
• Leverage AI tools to automate release and distribution workflows at scale.
• Partner with the launch team to power workflows and iterate on feedback.

Skills

TypeScript

React Native

CI/CD

Mobile apps

Ownership

Tools

Buildkite

MacStadium

AWS

Job description

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.

Our traction

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

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’re looking for you

We’re looking for a senior engineer who gets excited about operating at real scale - not just shipping a single mobile app, but owning the platform and distribution system behind thousands of them.

Our Guest App powers thousands of branded restaurant apps across iOS and Android, and we ship tens of thousands of releases every month through Apple and Google’s ecosystems.

These apps are a key channel for restaurant owners - a direct way to build customer relationships and avoid expensive third-party delivery fees. We’re building an app experience that can compete with the best third-party apps, but it has to scale across tens of thousands of restaurants (and growing). Behind every release is a complex web of build pipelines, certificates, store workflows, compliance requirements, and operational safeguards - and we’re investing in making this system world-class.

We’re turning our Guest App into a true mobile platform: one that engineers across the company can confidently build on, and one that reliably ships changes to production at massive scale. This role is at the center of that transformation - improving developer experience, strengthening release automation, and increasing distribution reliability across thousands of live apps.

If you’ve ever wanted to own mobile distribution at scale - and build the tooling, guardrails, and automation that make it work - this is that opportunity.

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

Mobile:

React Native (iOS + Android)

Infrastructure & Tooling:

Buildkite-driven mobile CI/CD and release automation at scale (iOS on MacStadium, Android on AWS), including store submission workflows and OTA updates.

Language:

TypeScript everywhere

The impact you'll have

Improve our mobile developer experience — from local setup to CI/CD — so engineers across the company can confidently contribute to the Guest App

Build guardrails, tooling, and automation that make shipping changes to thousands of apps safe and reliable

Increase release reliability and app freshness across Apple App Store and Google Play

Strengthen observability, monitoring, and operational workflows to quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Leverage AI tools to build automations at scale across our release and distribution workflows

Partner closely with our internal launch team — power their workflows, hear feedback quickly, and iterate

Contribute directly to the Guest App codebase when platform and product work intersect

Take ownership of cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through production

Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical leadership to raise the bar across the team

Help us build a great team — interview candidates, refer great engineers, and shape engineering culture

What we’re looking for

4+ years of experience building and shipping production applications, including experience owning releases end-to-end

Strong experience with TypeScript

Experience building and maintaining mobile applications (React Native experience is a strong plus)

Experience owning mobile app distribution — including shipping releases through the Apple App Store and/or Google Play, managing build pipelines, release workflows, versioning, and store compliance

Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and automating build and release processes

Track record of increasing release reliability and operational visibility (monitoring, alerting, debugging production issues)

Comfort navigating complex and sometimes opaque external systems (e.g., Apple/Google developer workflows, certificates, provisioning, store review processes, compliance requirements)

Experience at a product-focused startup, scale-up, or technology company

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 ambiguous, cross-cutting problems

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!

Notice - Employment Scams

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.

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