Staff Engineer (Fully Remote)

Owner; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Owner is an AI-native system that replaces many tools for local business owners, starting with restaurants. Our team is in the low hundreds, with top talent from companies like Shopify and DoorDash.

We’re seeking a Staff-level engineer to own the Orders platform architecture, drive event-sourced design, and partner across product, payments, and operations to deliver reliable ordering flows at scale. This role emphasizes resilience, observability, and thoughtful leadership, while staying hands-on

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with event sourcing, CRDTs, or comparable offline-first data approaches.
• Staff-level experience leading technical direction while coding.
• Clear communication and customer empathy, including willingness to work directly with restaurants.

Responsibilities

• Act as an architect within the Orders Platform team, setting technical direction for orders and building event-sourced systems that stay correct under failures.
• Partner closely with Product, Payments, Reporting, and engineering teams to ship reliable ordering flows end to end.
• Improve observability, replay, and recovery to find and fix order-state problems quickly while minimizing costs.

Skills

Event sourcing

CRDTs

Offline-first data

Architectural leadership

Communication and empathy

Job description

• Orders are the heartbeat of a restaurant, and our platform needs someone who can reason about event-sourced and CRDT systems.
• We need another Staff-level engineer to share architectural load and make the platform more resilient as we scale.

The impact you'll have:

• Act as an architect within the Orders Platform team, setting technical direction for orders and building event-sourced systems that stay correct under failures.
• Partner closely with Product, Payments, Reporting, and engineering teams to ship reliable ordering flows end to end.
• Improve observability, replay, and recovery to find and fix order-state problems quickly while minimizing costs.

What we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience with event sourcing, CRDTs, or comparable offline-first data approaches.
• Staff-level experience leading technical direction without losing touch with the code.
• Clear communication and customer empathy, including willingness to work directly with restaurants.

Owner

Owner is an AI-native system that replaces many tools for local business owners, starting with restaurants. Our team is in the low hundreds, with top talent from companies like Shopify and DoorDash.