ALSO. · 1 day ago
Senior Backend Developer, IOT
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $220K/yr
8+ years expALSO is an electric mobility company focused on creating innovative small electric vehicles. As a Senior Backend Developer, you will lead the architecture and implementation of backend systems for connected EVs, driving technical excellence and influencing the evolution of the connected EV platform.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Lead 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: data pipelines, API design, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows
Develop customer-facing features and internal analytics for mobile-connected devices using device telemetry and cloud-side algorithms
Strengthen security and privacy across the platform, including device authentication, OTA pipeline integrity, and customer data governance
Design and implement systems for high availability and geographic redundancy, ensuring reliability across global deployments
Build data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms
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
Qualification
Required
8+ yrs building and scaling back-end systems, including at least one experience with the full lifecycle of an IOT product
Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch
Experience with AWS (e.g. Lambda, ECR/ECS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, S3, IAM)
Strong knowledge of API design (REST/GraphQL), schema design, and data exchange (gRPC/JSON-RPC)
Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queueing systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS, pub/sub patterns)
Experience with authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS)
Familiarity with IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP), device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines
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.
Company
ALSO.
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$305MKey Investors
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2025-07-08Series Unknown· $200M
2025-03-26Series Unknown· $105M
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