Base Salary
$165k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own implementation of the flagship navigation experience from routing through rendering.
- Integrate external mapping and navigation APIs for route planning, turn-by-turn directions, and map metadata.
- Define navigation system interfaces across bike hardware, the mobile app, and cloud services.
- Design low-latency APIs and cloud systems for location, routing logic, vehicle-specific optimization, and data synchronization.
- Support offline fallback, route recalculation, device reconnects, and display rendering on constrained hardware.
- Define BLE protocols and vector graphic rendering constraints for the bike’s microcontroller-powered display.
- Contribute to engineering culture and development practices through documentation, mentoring, and hands-on leadership.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience in a production-grade environment, ideally using Golang and AWS.
- Proven ability to architect and ship complex systems in a fast-moving startup or 0-to-1 product environment.
- Deep understanding of real-time or near-real-time system design, especially for latency-sensitive use cases.
- Extensive experience with mapping and navigation platforms and integrations such as Google Maps APIs, Mapbox, HERE, or TomTom.
- Strong system design judgment balancing robustness, performance, and maintainability.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with firmware, mobile, and product stakeholders.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with BLE, GPS, and hardware-software interfaces is a bonus.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA and HSA options
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny
- Flexible time off
- 401(k) match
About ALSO
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company on a mission to build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous. Originally incubated within Rivian, we’re rethinking transportation from first principles to create a new generation of smaller, smarter, and more connected electric vehicles. Our team combines automotive rigor with advanced software, autonomy, sensing, and vertically integrated EV technologies to build products designed around the realities of modern mobility. We believe small vehicles are not a niche category, but a foundational shift in how people, goods, and communities will move through the world in the decades ahead. At ALSO, details matter. We’re builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers who care deeply about craft, innovation, and the everyday experiences our products create. Because movement is more than transportation—it’s connection, culture, freedom, and collective impact. We’re building that future now.