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.

Read our Series C memo here →

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

Owner is the leading all-in-one platform for independent restaurants. Operators use Owner to run their online ordering, websites, menus, marketing, and customer experience. 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 strategic bets at Owner, and the team is early enough that you will shape the architecture, platform, and products from the ground up.

We are looking for engineers who have shipped production agentic AI features and are ready to move fast in ambiguity. Your immediate impact: own an agent surface end-to-end. Your longer-term impact: help define what an agent platform at Owner looks like, and set technical direction for the dozen-plus agent surfaces 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: React, TypeScript
Backend: Node.js, TypeScript with Vercel AI SDK
Databases: MongoDB, 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 backend orchestration, conversational UI, and evals
Contribute to the shared agent platform: tool abstractions, chat persistence, eval frameworks, RAG, observability, permissioning
Shape 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 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

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.

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Agents)