Senior Backend Engineer - Core Services

onXmaps, Inc. is a high-growth tech company focused on enhancing outdoor experiences through innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Connected Content team, responsible for designing and building scalable backend services that manage complex data relationships and support their suite of outdoor navigation apps.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain scalable services to support new features and products across the onX suite of apps
• Design and implement data models for complex content relationships and metadata
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Assist in the creation, deployment, and management of services in Kubernetes
• Participate in and drive architectural decisions involving our services
• Design and instrument systems to monitor key performance indicators
• Mentor and share knowledge with engineers on your team
• Leverage and extend existing onX platform services
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional team members and stakeholders
• Lead by example -- embody onX's company values, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
• Participate in an on-call schedule to support backend services

Requirements:

• B.S., M.S., or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field
• Six or more years of professional software development experience, with API development as a primary focus for at least three of those years
• Strong backend development experience with modern languages (Go strongly preferred; Python or Java also considered)
• Experience building and debugging distributed, scalable microservices architecture
• Database design and optimization experience, particularly with PostgreSQL and distributed systems
• Well-versed in RESTful API design and modern systems design
• Strong computer science foundation
• You evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance, and the ability to debug
• You believe that your profession is a craft and you're driven to improve every day
• You are an advocate for the customer and their experience
• You want to work with other happy, talented engineers
• You take ownership and get stuff done
• Graph database or knowledge graph experience (highly valued)
• Data modeling for complex relationships and content metadata
• Experience with GraphQL
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Cloud Functions)
• Experience with geospatial databases such as PostGIS
• Familiarity with geospatial concepts such as quadtrees
• Strong background in data architecture
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform
• Cloud-native development patterns (GCP or AWS)
• Experience working with a distributed team
• Interest in mentoring junior engineers and being mentored by senior engineers