Senior Software Engineer, Guest Acquisition

Owner.com

1d•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with crawling and indexing, content generation, templating, structured data, internal linking, canonicalization, and internationalization is a plus.

Responsibilities

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.