Senior Software Engineer (Identity and Access Management)

• At Owner, authentication and authorization sit at the center of trust. Every restaurant owner, employee, partner, and internal teammate depends on secure, reliable access to the right tools at the right time — whether they’re ringing up orders, balancing the books, or supporting customers behind the scenes
• We’re building the next generation of our identity and access platform, and we need an exceptional engineer to help us get there. You’ll join a small, high-trust team with direct ownership over login, session management, permissions, roles, service-to-service auth, and the APIs and infrastructure every product team at Owner builds on top of. This is a rare opportunity to shape a foundational security platform at a fast-growing company — one that has to scale with our product surface, our customer base, and the complexity of the restaurants we serve
• This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada
• The impact you will have
• Help build the foundation for secure access at Owner — design and improve the authentication and authorization systems that power every product surface across the platform
• Own critical auth infrastructure end to end — contribute to systems for login, sessions, token management, service-to-service auth, account security, and access enforcement
• Improve reliability and observability — instrument auth services with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks needed to detect issues quickly and keep critical access flows healthy
• Raise the security bar — identify risks, improve controls, and help ensure authentication and authorization are designed thoughtfully from the beginning, not added as an afterthought
• Leverage AI tools to move faster — use AI tooling to accelerate your work, from writing and reviewing code to exploring solutions and automating repetitive tasks
• Help us build a great team — interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build
• Who you’ll work with
• A small, focused authentication and authorization team — you’ll work closely with a tight-knit group of engineers who own identity and access end to end
• Engineers across product, platform, infrastructure, and security — auth is a foundation every team depends on, so you’ll partner closely on APIs, access patterns, and implementation standards
• Product and Design — to ensure access flows are secure, intuitive, and aligned with the needs of restaurants and internal teams

Benefits

• Work from anywhere: Our flexible policy lets you work from wherever you want.
• Equity in Owner: All full-time employees in eligible countries receive pre-IPO equity in Owner.
• Benefits to support your success: We set you up for success where you are and where you’re going.
• Healthcare Coverage: We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans.
• Unlimited PTO: Your schedule, your choice. We give our team members full empowerment to choose the time they want to work, and don’t micro-manage working hours.
• Team retreats: We love building real friendships with everyone that we work with, so we do several retreats per year – to deepen our friendships, celebrate our wins, and plan our future.

Preferred experience

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them.
• Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don’t wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability
• Comfort with Typescript or Javascript — with deep experience in building web-scale applications