Senior Backend Engineer - Offroad

WHAT YOU WILL DO

onX is seeking a Senior 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 the user’s experience with off-road mapping and navigation as part of the Offroad team, supporting reliable, high-confidence trail navigation and land-use intelligence for Overlanders and Trail Riders. 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 Offroad engineering manager.

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

(Essential Job Duties)

• Design and build scalable, reliable backend APIs and services that power trail navigation, land-use intelligence, and offline mapping experiences for Overlanders and Trail Riders.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend features, from architecture and design through testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Partner closely with mobile and frontend engineers to define API contracts and integration patterns that enable fast, confident feature development across platforms.
• Participate in architectural decisions for the Offroad platform, ensuring alignment with broader platform strategy and advancing shared engineering patterns across teams.
• Proactively improve system observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and reliability of Offroad services.
• Mentor and support the growth of junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain service reliability and respond to production incidents.
• 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.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• B.S., M.S., or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field
• A minimum of seven (7) years of full-time professional software development experience is required with a focus on distributed cloud computing and API development.
• Experience with Go lang and a curiosity for frontend development with Vue.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code technologies, such as Terraform
• A strong computer science foundation.
• Experience building and debugging a distributed, scalable, highly available microservices architecture.
• A passion for maintainable, well-tested code that is easy for others to understand.
• Experience working in a remote environment with a distributed team.
• A strong curiosity for exploring new technologies, including AI
• A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onX’s Company Values.
• Permanent US work authorization and residence in the US is a condition of employment with onX.
• Ability to travel quarterly for multiple days to a corporate office or other onX strategic location, such as a Basecamp.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience with geospatial data formats, tools, or APIs (e.g., PostGIS, GeoJSON, vector tiles, or similar)
• Familiarity with offline-first or sync-heavy mobile architectures
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform provider such as Google Cloud Platform

COMPENSATION

onX is committed to compensating all employees fairly and equitably for their contributions. For this position, applicants can expect to make between $146,000 to $182,000 upon hire. The pay range will vary based on experience, skills, certifications, and education among other factors as required in the job description. In addition, full-time onX employees are eligible for a grant of common share options with a vesting schedule and a potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance.

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU

• Competitive salaries, annual bonuses, equity, and opportunities for growth
• Comprehensive health benefits including a no-monthly-cost medical plan
• Parental leave plan of 5 or 13 weeks fully paid
• 401k matching at 100% for the first 3% you save and 50% from 3-5%
• Company-wide outdoor adventures and amazing outdoor industry perks
• Annual “Get Out, Get Active” funds to fuel your active lifestyle in and outside of the gym
• Flexible time away package that includes PTO, STO, VTO, quiet weeks, and floating holidays