Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join onX as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to the development of features for our family of applications. You will build scalable services, design systems with observability and fault-tolerance, and participate in architectural decisions. Responsibilities include writing tests, documenting APIs, collaborating with engineers, and improving system monitoring. This role requires 6+ years of professional software development experience with at least 3 years focused on API development, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and proficiency in Go. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for growth within a dynamic, distributed team.

Requirements

• A minimum of six (6) or more years of professional software development experience is required, where API development was your professional focus for at least three (3) or more years
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering, a related degree, or relevant experience
• Experience working in Go
• A strong computer science foundation
• Experience building and debugging distributed, scalable, highly-available microservices architecture
• Experience evaluating technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance and the ability to debug
• Excellence in designing and developing modern APIs and scalable systems that ensure reliability and extensibility
• Expertise that supports seamless integrations across the frontend and backend
• A belief that your profession is a craft and you’re driven to improve every day
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested code that’s easy for others to understand
• Care about team culture and personal growth
• A strong sense of ownership for your work
• A desire to mentor junior engineers and be mentored by other senior engineers
• Advocacy for the customer and their experience
• A desire to work with other happy, talented engineers
• A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onX’s Company Values
• Permanent US work authorization is a condition of employment with onX
• Ability to travel twice a year for multiple days to a corporate office or other onX strategic location, such as a Basecamp

Responsibilities

• Build scalable services to support new features and products for the onX suite of apps
• Design and build systems with observability, fault-tolerance, and performance in mind
• Participate in architectural decisions involving our services
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Document APIs, service designs, and architectural decisions for internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders through design reviews, pairing, and cross-functional planning
• Leverage and extend existing onX services
• Proactively improve system monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics
• Participate in an on-call schedule to support backend services after work hours
• Lead by example - embody our company values

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Elixir or other FP languages
• 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
• Understanding of distributed databases such as CockroachDB
• Experience working with a distributed team

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