Base Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement secure, scalable IoT infrastructure and fleet-management backend systems.
- Improve cloud infrastructure covering API design, database schemas, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows.
- Build shared services for API gateways, caches, and schema upgrades.
- Develop data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms.
- Strengthen platform security and privacy, including user authentication.
- Design systems for high availability and geographic redundancy across global deployments.
- Ensure production readiness through automated testing, performance monitoring, and safe deployments.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions, hiring, engineering best practices, and team culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years building and scaling backend systems, including at least one full lifecycle experience managing remote devices.
- Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch.
- Strong experience with AWS, including Lambda, ECR/ECS, DynamoDB, S3, and IAM.
- Mastery of API design, schema design, and data exchange using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and JSON-RPC.
- Excellent knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queueing systems such as Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS, and publish/subscribe patterns.
- Experience with authentication and authorization protocols including OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, and mTLS.
- Familiarity with IoT protocols including MQTT and CoAP, device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines.
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.
- Located in Silicon Valley.
Tech Stack
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.