About Owner
Owner is the AI-native system lo
cal business owners use to su
cceed, starting with restaurants.
We’re building the system that repla
ces 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 agenti
cally.
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 su
cceed online.
But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most lo
cal businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge te
chnology
corporations are taking their
customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.
On
ce we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll s
cale it into every other lo
cal business type.
In the future we envision, tens of millions of lo
cal business owners will use our te
chnology to su
cceed in the digital age.
Read our Series
C memo here →
Our traction
Sin
ce 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and pro
cessed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Ameri
cans 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 su
ccessful
companies in SMB software, in
cluding: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, Servi
ceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.
We’ll be s
caling even faster in 2026 to keep pa
ce with our
customer growth.
Where we work
Owner is a remote-first, global
company headquartered in San Fran
cis
co, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person
collaboration at one of our offi
ce lo
cations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role des
cription and dis
cuss with your re
cruiter for more details on lo
cation!
Why we're looking for you
Owner is the leading all-in-one platform for independent restaurants. Operators use Owner to run their online ordering, websites, menus,
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customer experien
ce. Tens of thousands of restaurants depend on us every day to run their business.
AI Agents at Owner is a team with a singular mandate: build agents that let restaurant owners run their business through natural
conversation, everywhere they work with Owner. This is one of the most important strategi
c bets at Owner, and the team is early enough that you will shape the ar
chite
cture, platform, and produ
cts from the ground up.
We are looking for engineers who have shipped produ
ction agenti
c AI features and are ready to move fast in ambiguity. Your immediate impa
ct: own an agent surfa
ce end-to-end. Your longer-term impa
ct: help define what an agent platform at Owner looks like, and set
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chni
cal dire
ction for the dozen-plus agent surfa
ces we will build over the next year.
This role is 100% remote and
can be based anywhere in the United States or
Canada.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: class="bg-amber-100">React, class="bg-amber-100">TypeScript
- class="bg-amber-100">Backend: class="bg-amber-100">Node.js, class="bg-amber-100">TypeScript with Vercel AI SDK
- Databases: class="bg-amber-100">MongoDB, class="bg-amber-100">PostgreSQL
- Observability: Datadog, Braintrust / LangSmith for evals
The impact you'll have
- Own one or more agent surfaces end-to-end, from LLM integration and tool design to class="bg-amber-100">backend orchestration, conversational UI, and evals
- Contribute to the shared agent platform: tool abstractions, chat persistence, eval frameworks, RAG, observability, permissioning
- Shape class="bg-amber-100">technical direction on agent architecture, framework choice, and model strategy across Owner
- Make thoughtful tradeoffs on latency, cost, and reliability so our agents feel fast and trustworthy in production
- Raise the bar for agent quality through rigorous evals, thoughtful iteration, and patterns other engineers adopt
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time shipping production LLM-powered or agentic features
- Fluency with tool calling, prompt engineering, and agent loops — you have built systems where the LLM is a first-class component, not a bolt-on
- Experience with eval frameworks and observability for non-deterministic systems (Braintrust, LangSmith, custom eval harnesses, or equivalent)
- Full-stack comfort — you can move between class="bg-amber-100">backend orchestration, tool design, and conversational UI without being blocked by hand-offs
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience with RAG or retrieval systems at production quality
- Background in restaurant tech, commerce, or SMB operator tooling
- Contributions to open source agent frameworks, evals, or LLM tooling
- Experience growing and mentoring engineers on agentic AI patterns
Compensation And Benefits
- The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $210K-230K 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
Communi
cation from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.
com email address.
We do not
condu
ct interviews over email or
chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or finan
cial information su
ch as your mailing address, so
cial
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curity number,
credit
card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being
conta
cted by a s
cammer, please mark the
communi
cation as "phishing" or “spam” and do not respond.