Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Platform - Guest App (Remote, Canada)

Owner is an AI-native system designed to help local business owners succeed, starting with restaurants. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their mobile platform, focusing on improving developer experience, release automation, and distribution reliability for their Guest App, which serves thousands of branded restaurant apps.

Responsibilities:

• Improve our mobile developer experience — from local setup to CI/CD — so engineers across the company can confidently contribute to the Guest App
• Build guardrails, tooling, and automation that make shipping changes to thousands of apps safe and reliable
• Increase release reliability and app freshness across Apple App Store and Google Play
• Strengthen observability, monitoring, and operational workflows to quickly diagnose and resolve issues
• Leverage AI tools to build automations at scale across our release and distribution workflows
• Partner closely with our internal launch team — power their workflows, hear feedback quickly, and iterate
• Contribute directly to the Guest App codebase when platform and product work intersect
• Take ownership of cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through production
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical leadership to raise the bar across the team
• Help us build a great team — interview candidates, refer great engineers, and shape engineering culture

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production applications, including experience owning releases end-to-end
• Strong experience with TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining mobile applications (React Native experience is a strong plus)
• Experience owning mobile app distribution — including shipping releases through the Apple App Store and/or Google Play, managing build pipelines, release workflows, versioning, and store compliance
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and automating build and release processes
• Track record of increasing release reliability and operational visibility (monitoring, alerting, debugging production issues)
• Comfort navigating complex and sometimes opaque external systems (e.g., Apple/Google developer workflows, certificates, provisioning, store review processes, compliance requirements)
• Experience at a product-focused startup, scale-up, or technology company
• 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 ambiguous, cross-cutting problems