Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at onX, a digital outdoor navigation company. The role involves working with the Growth domain team and focuses on the user journey throughout the products. The ideal candidate should have at least 8 years of professional software development experience, with API development using Elixir as the focus for at least 3 years.

Requirements

• Minimum eight (8) years of professional software development experience required
• API development with Elixir was your professional focus for at least three (3) or more years

Responsibilities

• Build scalable services to support new features and products for the onX suite of apps
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Participate in architectural decisions involving our services
• Collaborate effectively with other team members and stakeholders
• Lead by example - embody our company values
• Leverage and extend existing onX services
• Participate in an on-call schedule to support backend services after work hours
• Other ad hoc duties as assigned by the Supervisor

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering or related degree
• Experience instrumenting experiments such as A/B tests
• Experience working in Go
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform provider such as Google Cloud Platform
• Strong background in relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, annual bonuses, equity, and opportunities for growth
• Comprehensive health benefits including a no-monthly-cost medical plan
• Parental leave plan of 5 or 13 weeks fully paid
• 401k matching at 100% for the first 3% you save and 50% from 3-5%
• Company-wide outdoor adventures and amazing outdoor industry perks
• Annual ‘Get Out, Get Active’ funds to fuel your active lifestyle in and outside of the gym
• Flexible time away package that includes PTO, STO, VTO, quiet weeks, and floating holidays