Senior Software Engineer, Guest Acquisition

Owner

$190K — $220K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong technical leadership and end-to-end ownership of projects.
  • Familiarity with large-scale SEO systems and their components.
  • Proficiency in data analysis and conducting controlled experiments for optimization.
  • Experience in building reliable services with observability and incident preparedness.
  • Strong systems thinking capabilities across various tech stacks.
  • Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.],
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  • Own the technical strategy for SEO/AEO systems, translating growth goals into actionable plans.
  • Lead the complete delivery of initiatives from design through operational readiness.
  • Enhance reliability and quality across pipelines with necessary monitoring tools.
  • Drive continuous improvement through rigorous experimentation and measurement.
  • Mentor the engineering team, elevating standards and facilitating collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy for SEO/AEO systems, translating growth goals into actionable plans.
  • Lead the complete delivery of initiatives from design through operational readiness.
  • Enhance reliability and quality across pipelines with necessary monitoring tools.
  • Drive continuous improvement through rigorous experimentation and measurement.
  • Mentor the engineering team, elevating standards and facilitating collaboration.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage for employees.
  • Remote-first workplace allowing work from anywhere.
  • Unlimited PTO for enhanced work-life balance.
  • Generous pre-IPO equity package offered.
Full Job Description
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!

The Guest Acquisition team is building the self-driving, AI-powered platform for profitable growth for small businesses. A crucial element of this growth engine is attracting new consumer demand for our restaurant customers through SEO and AEO/GEO.

Owner's acquisition engine first identifies what makes a given restaurant unique, evaluates local demand for its offerings, and assesses the most relevant competition to determine the best strategy for promoting that restaurant. Then, the platform automatically generates relevant website pages and content, monitors results over time, and evolves its strategy as it gets more data.

We are looking for a mission-driven engineer who is passionate about their craft and committed to building incredible products for our customers.

What you'll work on:
  • Own the technical strategy for SEO/AEO systems at scale, translating ambiguous growth goals into a prioritized roadmap, clear metrics, and durable system architecture.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of major initiatives such as new ingestion sources, indexing and serving improvements, or content generation workflows, from design through launch and operational readiness.
  • Raise the bar on reliability, quality, and observability across pipelines and services, building guardrails, alerting, dashboards, and incident-ready runbooks that enable sustained iteration.
  • Drive a rigorous experimentation and measurement loop, partnering with product, data, and cross-functional teams to validate impact, diagnose regressions, and continuously improve performance.
  • Mentor and multiply the team, setting engineering standards, reviewing designs, coaching other engineers, and aligning across teams where changes require shared ownership.


What we need:
  • Strong technical leadership and end-to-end ownership.
    Ability to set direction, drive alignment, and deliver multi-quarter initiatives from design through launch and iteration.
  • Familiarity with SEO systems at scale.
    Experience with crawling and indexing, content generation, templating, structured data, internal linking, canonicalization, and internationalization is a plus.
  • Data and experimentation rigor.
    Comfort defining success metrics, running controlled experiments, analyzing results, and debugging performance changes (rankings, traffic, conversion).
  • Operational excellence.
    Experience building reliable pipelines and services with strong observability, alerting, and incident-ready runbooks.
  • Systems thinking across the stack.
    Able to reason about tradeoffs across ingestion, storage, serving, and quality controls, and to design durable architectures.
  • Cross-functional partnership.
    Able to collaborate tightly with Product, Data, and Design, and influence decisions without authority.


Pay and benefits

  • The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $190K-220K 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!

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