Senior Cloud Backend Engineer for Scalable Connected EV Platform

ALSO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Robust health coverage

One Medical membership

Fertility benefits

Flexible time off

401(k) match

Job summary

ALSO is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Developer in the heart of Silicon Valley to lead backend systems for our connected EV platform. You will shape API design, data flows, and cloud infrastructure powering our fleet of EVs.

The role emphasizes security, high availability, and scalable architectures, with mentorship and collaboration across teams, and opportunities to contribute to the next generation of ALSO's mobility solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ yrs building and scaling backend systems, including at least one experience with managing remote devices.
• Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of API design (REST/GraphQL), schema design, and data exchange.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queueing systems (Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS).
• Experience with authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS).
• Familiarity with IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP), device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines.
• Bonus if you have experience in Fleet Management.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of backend systems to support secure, scalable IoT infrastructure for our fleet of connected EVs.
• Drive improvements to core cloud infrastructure: API design, database schema, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows.
• Contribute to shared services for API gateway, caches, schema upgrades
• Build data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms.
• Strengthen security and privacy across the platform, including user authentication
• Design and implement systems for high availability and geographic redundancy, ensuring reliability across global deployments.
• Ensure production readiness with automated testing, performance monitoring, and deployment safety.
• Partner with external agencies to scale team capacity effectively.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making, hiring processes, and engineering best practices.
• Drive and define a team culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Skills

Backend architecture

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Event-driven architecture

Authentication/Authorization (OAuth2,等

IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP)

Fleet Management (bonus)

Realtime data processing

Distributed systems

Security and privacy

Tools

Kafka

Redis

SQS/SNS

Job description

ALSO is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Developer in the heart of Silicon Valley to lead backend systems for our connected EV platform. You will shape API design, data flows, and cloud infrastructure powering our fleet of EVs.

The role emphasizes security, high availability, and scalable architectures, with mentorship and collaboration across teams, and opportunities to contribute to the next generation of ALSO's mobility solutions.