Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. onXmaps, Inc. is a high-growth tech company focused on helping people explore the outdoors. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend APIs and services for off-road mapping and navigation, ensuring reliable trail navigation and land-use intelligence for users.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable backend APIs and services that power trail navigation, land-use intelligence, and offline mapping experiences for Overlanders and Trail Riders
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend features, from architecture and design through testing, deployment, and operational readiness
- Partner closely with mobile and frontend engineers to define API contracts and integration patterns that enable fast, confident feature development across platforms
- Participate in architectural decisions for the Offroad platform, ensuring alignment with broader platform strategy and advancing shared engineering patterns across teams
- Proactively improve system observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and reliability of Offroad services
- Mentor and support the growth of junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and day-to-day collaboration
- Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain service reliability and respond to production incidents
- Look for opportunities to embed AI as a repeatable co-pilot in daily workflows by integrating experimentation into real work, and continuously refining its use with sound judgment and validation
Skills
- B.S., M.S., or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field
- A minimum of seven (7) years of full-time professional software development experience is required with a focus on distributed cloud computing and API development
- Experience with Go lang and a curiosity for frontend development with Vue
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code technologies, such as Terraform
- A strong computer science foundation
- Experience building and debugging a distributed, scalable, highly available microservices architecture
- A passion for maintainable, well-tested code that is easy for others to understand
- Experience working in a remote environment with a distributed team
- A strong curiosity for exploring new technologies, including AI
- A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onX's Company Values
- Permanent US work authorization and residence in the US is a condition of employment with onX
- Ability to travel quarterly for multiple days to a corporate office or other onX strategic location, such as a Basecamp
- Experience with geospatial data formats, tools, or APIs (e.g., PostGIS, GeoJSON, vector tiles, or similar)
- Familiarity with offline-first or sync-heavy mobile architectures
- Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform provider such as Google Cloud Platform
Benefits
- Full-time onX employees are eligible for a grant of common share options with a vesting schedule
- A potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance
- 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
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