Engineering Manager (PLG)

• Owner is the leading all-in-one platform for independent restaurants, and 2026 is the year we engineer a true product-led growth motion: restaurant owners should be able to go from discovering Owner all the way to running their whole business on it, opting into each next step because they trust it’s worth it
• As we scale that motion, we’re expanding our product engineering leadership to accelerate our ability to ship fast, delight restaurant owners, and build infrastructure that scales with us
• As an Engineering Manager for Launch and Websites, you’ll lead teams of fullstack engineers building the core product surfaces owners rely on every day - from the self-serve launch journey that takes them from Grader to POS, to the website design, builder, and generation systems that put their brand online
• This role is equal parts product intuition and technical execution. You’ll be trusted to make fast, high-quality decisions, ship impactful features, and grow a team that embodies engineering excellence
• We move with urgency, bias toward simplicity, and expect our leaders to be hands-on when needed. If you’re energized by ownership, decisive execution, and solving real problems for small business owners, we’d love to hear from you
• Our Stack:
• Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript
• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript
• Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure & Observability: Temporal, Datadog, AWS
• TypeScript everywhere

Benefits

• Work from anywhere: Our flexible policy lets you work from wherever you want.

• Equity in Owner: All full-time employees in eligible countries receive pre-IPO equity in Owner.

• Benefits to support your success: We set you up for success where you are and where you’re going.

• Healthcare Coverage: We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans.

• Unlimited PTO: Your schedule, your choice. We give our team members full empowerment to choose the time they want to work, and don’t micro-manage working hours.

• Team retreats: We love building real friendships with everyone that we work with, so we do several retreats per year – to deepen our friendships, celebrate our wins, and plan our future.

• Today, most restaurant owners lose an enormous amount of time and trust just getting live on Owner and getting a website that actually represents their brand, instead of running their business

• Launch owns the self-serve journey that takes an owner from Grader all the way to POS - engineering the automation and trust signals that let owners opt into each next step without needing a person to walk them through it

• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who cares deeply about the craft and the team behind it - someone who’s led full-stack engineers building customer-facing product end-to-end, and who’s excited to build a strong, durable engineering culture across two of our most strategically important product areas

• These two teams sit at the center of Owner’s product-led growth motion this year - systems directly in the critical path for how independent restaurants activate, launch, and show up online

• . Websites owns the design, builder, and AI-powered generation systems that put a restaurant’s brand online, closing the customization gaps that drive churn and increasing the number of high-quality sites we launch

• Strong product sense and an instinct for balancing speed, quality, and user impact

• A track record of leading high-performing, engaged full-stack engineering teams - not purely backend-platform or purely frontend teams

• Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React) and backend systems (e.g. Node.js)

• A plus: experience applying LLMs or agents (research, enrichment, next-best-action, automated diagnosis)

• High degree of cross-functional collaboration - past colleagues in product, design, and business would speak highly of your teamwork

• A plus: growth or PLG experience (self-serve activation, onboarding, upgrade flows) - desirable, not required

• ~3 years of experience in a software engineering management role leading fullstack product engineering teams, preferably in high-growth environments