Senior Software Engineer, Guest Acquisition

Owner is an AI-native system helping local business owners, starting with restaurants, succeed through tools for websites, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the technical strategy and delivery of scalable SEO/AEO acquisition systems, improve reliability and observability, drive experimentation, and mentor engineers across teams.

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

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
• Comfort defining success metrics, running controlled experiments, analyzing results, and debugging performance changes (rankings, traffic, conversion)
• Experience building reliable pipelines and services with strong observability, alerting, and incident-ready runbooks
• Able to reason about tradeoffs across ingestion, storage, serving, and quality controls, and to design durable architectures
• Able to collaborate tightly with Product, Data, and Design, and influence decisions without authority
• Experience with crawling and indexing, content generation, templating, structured data, internal linking, canonicalization, and internationalization is a plus