Staff Backend Engineer - Scalable AI for Local Businesses

Owner.com; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Remote-first / work from anywhere

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Owner is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend services powering Grader scans end-to-end, including ingesting signals from Google, Yelp, menus, and AI scoring.

This 100% remote role can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada. You will tighten latency, boost uptime, and build observability and runbooks to scale the platform.

Join a remote-first team with experts from Shopify, HubSpot, and Stripe as you scale to a broader AI-powered restaurant health product.

Qualifications

• 7+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend services and data pipelines that power Grader scans end-to-end — from ingesting third-party presence 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.

Skills

Backend ownership

Data pipelines

Third-party integrations

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Communication

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Datadog

AWS

Temporal

Job description

Owner is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend services powering Grader scans end-to-end, including ingesting signals from Google, Yelp, menus, and AI scoring.

This 100% remote role can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada. You will tighten latency, boost uptime, and build observability and runbooks to scale the platform.

Join a remote-first team with experts from Shopify, HubSpot, and Stripe as you scale to a broader AI-powered restaurant health product.