Staff Engineer – Orders Platform (Remote, Equity, PTO)

Owner.com; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Remote-first / work from anywhere

Unlimited PTO

Pre-IPO equity package

Job summary

Owner.com is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and evolve the core Orders Platform as we scale to more restaurants. You’ll tackle event-sourced storage, offline-first data, and cross-device code distribution with Kotlin Multiplatform, ensuring correctness even when parts of the system fail.

This remote-first role offers high ownership, collaboration with product and payments teams, and a generous equity package; base salary in the $240k–$260k range plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with event sourcing, CRDTs, or comparable approaches to replicated and offline-first data
• Experience with idempotency, optimistic concurrency, event replay, projections, and reconciliation
• Comfort reasoning about what happens if a node disappears halfway through the operation and designing for it
• Ability to pick up a specialized technology quickly and make it more robust
• Staff-level experience leading technical direction without losing touch with the code
• Clear written and verbal communication, and a habit of making complex systems easier for others to understand

Responsibilities

• Act as an architect within the Orders Platform team, setting technical direction for how orders are modeled, stored, replicated, and reconciled
• Design and build event-sourced and replicated-state systems that stay correct under retries, network partitions, concurrent edits, and partial failure
• Partner with Product, Payments, Reporting, and the engineers on our point of sale and mobile surfaces to ship reliable ordering flows end to end
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team build deep fluency in these patterns
• Improve observability, replay, and recovery to find and fix order-state problems quickly while minimizing costs
• Reduce bus factor risk by sharing context and documenting how the platform works

Skills

Event sourcing

CRDTs

Idempotency

Optimistic concurrency

Event replay

Projections

Architecture leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Datadog

PostgreSQL

SQLite

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Job description

Owner.com is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and evolve the core Orders Platform as we scale to more restaurants. You’ll tackle event-sourced storage, offline-first data, and cross-device code distribution with Kotlin Multiplatform, ensuring correctness even when parts of the system fail.

This remote-first role offers high ownership, collaboration with product and payments teams, and a generous equity package; base salary in the $240k–$260k range plus benefits.