Owner
Senior Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management
Remote - Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptDistributed SystemsAPI DevelopmentHubSpotCRMShopifyCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- About Owner Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.
- Product philosophy Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Help us build a great team - interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build.
- 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.
- Comfort with Typescript or Javascript - with deep experience in building web-scale applications.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ 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.
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability.
- If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or "spam" and do not respond.
Skills
- Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.
- It powers everything from the restaurant's website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.
- Product philosophy
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