Backend Engineer III - Hunt

About this role

ABOUT onX

We’re a team of builders, adventurers, and risk takers using technology to help people confidently explore the outdoors. Driven by our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone, we build products that optimize every outdoor experience and inspire confidence to get out and go further.

We’re a high-growth tech company. The pace is fast, the work takes grit, and ambiguity is part of the job. As the world changes around us, we adapt - continuously evolving how we build, prioritize, and deliver.

Our business moves quickly, and there’s real opportunity to shape what we build next. Each of our verticals - Hunt, Offroad, Backcountry, and Fish - is at a different stage of maturity, which means the challenges you encounter and the impact you have will vary depending on where you sit and what the business needs most.

We operate with an experimentation mindset, continually iterating and improving how we solve problems. We expect our people to use the latest tooling, including AI, thoughtfully and responsibly, pairing human judgment with technology to increase quality, speed, and impact.

Our impact comes to life through the products we build, in the stories of our customers, and in our growing commitment to land stewardship and recreational access.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

onX is seeking a Backend Engineer who will contribute to meaningful, real-world outcomes that have a lasting impact for customers and the business. In this role, you'll focus on building and scaling the hunt-specific backend services and data layer that power experiences for hunters as part of the Hunt team, supporting onX's goal of delivering a best-in-class Hunt experience from onboarding through the season. You'll take ownership of your work, collaborate closely with partners across the organization, and help move initiatives forward in an environment where priorities evolve, learning is celebrated, and you're encouraged to keep stretching your skills. This role will report to the Engineering Manager of Hunt.

As an onX Backend Engineer, your day to day responsibilities would look like:

(Essential Job Duties)

• Design, build, and scale well-tested backend services and data models that power engaging experiences across onX apps.

• Own the data layer that captures, stores, and serves data to deliver new features.

• Partner with engineers and product managers across teams to integrate data and services cleanly, leveraging and extending existing services and platform patterns.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and write thorough unit, integration, and acceptance tests to keep services reliable, performant, and maintainable.

• Provide code review and backend coverage across the team's work to keep everyone shipping.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure backend services remain highly available and reliable after hours.

• Look for opportunities to embed AI as a repeatable co-pilot in daily workflows by integrating experimentation into real work, and continuously refining its use with sound judgment and validation.

LOCATION

onX has created a thriving distributed workforce community across several US locations. This position can be performed from an onX corporate office, “Basecamp,” or “Connection Hub".

• Corporate Offices : onX was founded in Montana with offices in Missoula and Bozeman. If you prefer to work in an office at least part of the time this is a great option.

• Basecamps : Basecamps are established virtual workforce communities where a sizable number of distributed team members group for work, volunteering, socializing, and adventure.

• Our current Basecamps are located within a 90-mile radius of the following: Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Kalispell, MT; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Salt Lake City, UT; and Seattle, WA.

• Connection Hubs : Connection Hub locations are smaller, emerging communities of distributed team members.

• Our current Connection Hubs are located within a 60-mile radius of the following: Boise, ID; Charleston, SC; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Richmond, VA; Spokane, WA; and Vermont.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Five (5) or more years of professional software development experience is required, where API development was your professional focus for at least three (3) or more years.

• Experience building and debugging distributed, scalable microservices architectures.

• You are well-versed in modern API and systems design and development, with a strong computer science foundation.

• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.

• Experience working in Go.

• You evaluate technologies and solutions based on merit, stability, performance, and the ability to debug, and you write maintainable, well-tested code that's easy for others to understand.

• A strong sense of ownership, a desire to mentor and be mentored, and advocacy for the customer and their experience.

• A strong curiosity for exploring new technologies, including AI.

• A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onX's Company Values.

• You want to work with other happy, talented engineers.

• You write great code and get stuff done.

• Permanent US work authorization is a condition of employment with onX.

• Ability to travel on occasion for multiple days to a corporate office or other onX strategic location, such as a Basecamp.

ADDED BONUSES

Though not required, we would be thrilled to consider candidates with any of the following:

• Experience working with GraphQL.

• Experience with Elixir or other functional programming languages.

• Experience with Rust programming language.

• Experience with Python.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.

• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform provider such as Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with geospatial datab

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