Senior Full Stack Engineer, Cloud Platform

ALSO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

One Medical membership

Fertility benefits

Flexible time off

401(k) match

Job summary

ALSO is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer in the Silicon Valley area to own from data model to screen. You’ll build backend microservices for connected-vehicle and fleet infrastructure and craft frontends for customer and partner portals, internal tools, and dashboards.

Expect a high bar for performance, reliability, and scalable design across both server and client surfaces. You’ll work with TypeScript/Node.js, React, and modern tooling, with strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership and

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating production backend services with end-to-end ownership.
• Data modeling and schema design across relational and non-relational stores, with AWS exposure.
• Event-driven production systems using Kafka/SQS/Redis or similar.
• Ownership of on-call reliability and performance improvements.
• Expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and React for data-dense UIs.
• Design system fluency and responsive, accessible interfaces.
• Ability to translate rough briefs to shipped interfaces; asks good questions.
• CI testing discipline and meaningful test coverage.
• Nice to have Go experience in parts of the platform.
• Nice to have real-time systems and IoT protocols.
• Nice to have Terraform and observability tooling.
• Nice to have data visualization at scale or EV/automotive experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend microservices for secure, scalable connected-vehicle and fleet infrastructure from data ingestion to APIs.
• Build the platform’s user surfaces: customer web app, portals, admin/config consoles, and internal tooling.
• Improve core platform infrastructure: API design, database schema, service interactions, observability, deployments.
• Develop integrations with external services and partner platforms with maintainable contracts.
• Establish frontend foundations: component patterns, data-fetching conventions for internal tools.
• Turn telemetry and fleet state into fast, usable interfaces under operational pressure.
• Ensure production readiness via automated testing and monitoring.

Skills

Backend design

Data modeling

Event-driven

Production ownership

TypeScript/Node.js

React

Design systems

CI testing

Go experience

Real-time systems

IoT protocols

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Data viz / EV experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

About ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

At ALSO, we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who wants to own a capability from the data model all the way through to the screen — not a backend engineer who tolerates the frontend, and not a frontend engineer who just calls someone else's API, but someone who holds a high bar at both ends.

Our cloud platform is where a connected EV becomes more than a vehicle: telemetry arrives continuously from the field, services turn it into diagnostics and fleet intelligence, and a set of interfaces puts that capability in front of customers checking their vehicle, partners building on our APIs, and internal teams managing a growing fleet. You'd be designing and shipping backend microservices built for real scale and real reliability, then building the interfaces on top of them — in a genuine 0 to 1 environment where systems are still being designed, decisions are still open, and the patterns you set will shape how the team builds for years.

What You'll Do

• Design and build backend microservices for secure, scalable connected-vehicle and fleet infrastructure — from data ingestion through product-facing APIs — owning each feature end to end: data model, service, API contract, interface, instrumentation, and post-launch operation

• Build the platform's user surfaces: the customer-facing web app, developer and partner portals, admin and configuration consoles, and internal fleet and operations tooling

• Improve core platform infrastructure — API design, database schema, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows — and contribute to shared services like the API gateway, caching, authentication, and schema migrations

• Build integrations with external services and partner platforms, designing contracts that stay maintainable over time

• Establish frontend foundations — component patterns, shared UI primitives, and data-fetching conventions — so the team builds new internal tools quickly instead of starting over each time

• Turn high-volume telemetry and fleet state into interfaces that are fast, dense, and genuinely usable under real operational pressure

• Ensure production readiness through automated testing, performance monitoring, and safe deployment practices

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years building and operating production backend services you designed, not just maintained — strong service-boundary judgment and API design depth (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), including real versioning and backward compatibility work

• Data modeling and schema design across relational and non-relational stores, including live migrations, plus solid AWS experience with real operational exposure across compute, storage, data, and identity

• Event-driven architecture in production (Kafka, SQS/SNS, Redis, or similar), containers and orchestration (Docker in production, Kubernetes or equivalent), and OAuth2/OIDC/JWT/mTLS in practice

• Real production ownership — on call for what you built, debugged under pressure, fixed root causes — with solid performance and reliability instincts (profiling, concurrency, graceful degradation)

• Expert TypeScript/Node.js and a modern component framework (React preferred), with real depth on data-dense interfaces — tables, dashboards, filtering, real-time state — and the performance problems that come with them

• Design system fluency: you extend a component library cleanly rather than fighting it, and treat responsiveness, accessibility, and performance as defaults, even on internal tools nobody's watching

• Comfortable taking a rough Figma file or written brief and driving it to a shipped interface, asking good questions along the way

• Testing discipline wired into CI, with judgment on what's actually worth testing, and demonstrated success in a 0 to 1, highly autonomous setting

• Nice to have - Go experience, or proven ability to get productive in a new language fast — parts of our platform are written in Go

• Nice to have - Real-time systems (WebSockets, WebRTC, streaming state) and multi-tenant architecture

• Nice to have - IoT protocols (MQTT/CoAP), device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines

• Nice to have - Infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD ownership, and observability tooling (tracing, logging, alerting)

• Nice to have - Data visualization at scale, open source contributions, or prior EV/automotive/connected-device experience

The salary for this position ranges from $175,000 - $205,000 per year, depending on experience, qualifications, and location.

Perks & Benefits

• Robust health coverage — excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options

• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates

• Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny

• Flexible time off

• 401(k) match

Why ALSO.

We’re passionate about helping the world find a better way to get there—wherever it is you’re headed.

We’re located in the heart of Silicon Valley and have brought together a world-class team from some of the biggest brands in the technology, automotive, cycling, outdoor recreation and retail spaces.

Together we’re working hands‑on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.