Senior Backend Engineer

ABOUT onX

As a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation with a suite of apps, onX was founded in Montana, which in turn has inspired our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone. With more than 300 employees located around the country working in largely remote / hybrid roles, we have created regional “Basecamps” to help remote employees find connection and inspiration with other onXers. We bring our outdoor passion to work every day, coupling it with industry-leading technology to craft dynamic outdoor experiences.

Through multiple years of growth, we haven’t lost our entrepreneurial ethos at onX. We offer a fast-paced, growing, tech-forward environment where ownership, accountability, and passion for winning as a team are essential. We value diversity and believe it leads to different perspectives and inspires both new adventures and new growth. As a team, we’re hungry to improve, value innovation, and believe great ideas come from any direction.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

onX is seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Connection team. This team is focused on building community in all of our products. We practice data-driven decision making and emphasize experimentation. Engineers on our team have ownership and autonomy to create, develop and analyze their work in the context of greater company objectives. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a dynamic growing company focused on making an impact on the business, working with new technologies, and solving hard problems.

As an onX Senior Backend Engineer, your day to day responsibilities would look like:

(Essential Job Duties)

• 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

LOCATION

onX has created a thriving distributed workforce community across several US locations. This position can be performed from an onX corporate office, “Basecamp,” or “Connection Hub". 

• Corporate Offices: onX was founded in Montana with offices in Missoula and Bozeman. If you prefer to work in an office at least part of the time this is a great option.
• Basecamps: Basecamps are established virtual workforce communities where a sizable number of distributed team members group for work, volunteering, socializing, and adventure.  
  • Our current Basecamps are located within a 90-mile radius of the following: Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Kalispell, MT; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Salt Lake City, UT; and Seattle, WA. 
• Connection Hubs: Connection Hub locations are smaller, emerging communities of distributed team members. 
  • Our current Connection Hubs are located within a 60-mile radius of the following: Boise, ID; Charleston, SC; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Richmond, VA; Spokane, WA; and Vermont.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Minimum of six (6) years of professional software development experience is required, where API development was your professional focus for at least three (4) or more years. 
• You have experience building and debugging distributed, scalable microservices architecture
• You evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance and the ability to debug
• You are well-versed in modern API and systems design and development
• You have a strong computer science foundation
• 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 want to mentor junior engineers and be mentored by other senior engineers
• You write great code
• You get stuff done
• You take ownership

ADDED BONUSES

Though not required, we would be thrilled to consider candidates with any of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering or related degree required
• Experience working in Go
• 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 databa