Staff Cloud Backend Engineer for Scalable IoT & EV Platform

Also, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

One Medical membership

Fertility benefits with Progyny

Flexible time off

401(k) match

Job summary

ALSO is seeking a Senior Staff Backend Developer to steer backend architecture for secure, scalable IoT infrastructure powering its connected EVs. You will shape core platform design, APIs, and deployment workflows while scaling systems globally.

The role emphasizes mentoring, architectural leadership, and a strong focus on security, observability, and performance in a fast-paced 0-1 environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ yrs building and scaling back-end systems, including remote devices.
• Design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, IAM.
• REST/GraphQL API design and data exchange (gRPC/JSON-RPC).
• Event-driven architecture and message queues (Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS).
• Authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2, JWT, SAML).
• IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP) and telemetry pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and implementation of backend systems for secure, scalable IoT infra.
• Improve core cloud infrastructure: API design, schema, service interactions, 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.
• Ensure production readiness with automated testing and performance monitoring.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions and hiring.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Skills

Backend development

AWS

API design

Event-driven architecture

IoT protocols (MQTT/CoAP)

Security & authentication

Distributed systems

Mentoring & leadership

Tools

Kafka

Redis

SQS/SNS

DynamoDB

ECS

Job description

ALSO is seeking a Senior Staff Backend Developer to steer backend architecture for secure, scalable IoT infrastructure powering its connected EVs. You will shape core platform design, APIs, and deployment workflows while scaling systems globally.

The role emphasizes mentoring, architectural leadership, and a strong focus on security, observability, and performance in a fast-paced 0-1 environment.