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Palo Alto, California, United States
Onsite
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.
