Senior Backend Engineer - Core Services

ABOUT ONX

As a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation with a suite of apps, onX was founded in Montana, which in turn has inspired our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone. With more than 400 employees located around the country working in largely remote / hybrid roles, we have created regional "Basecamps" to help remote employees find connection and inspiration with other onXers.

We bring our outdoor passion to work every day, coupling it with industry-leading technology to craft dynamic outdoor experiences.

Through multiple years of growth, we haven’t lost our entrepreneurial ethos  offer a fast‑paced, growing, tech‑forward environment where ownership, accountability, and passion for winning as a team are essential. We value diversity and believe it leads to different perspectives and inspires both new adventures and new growth.

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onX is seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Connected Content team. In this role, you will be an integral part of a cross‑functional team building and evolving the systems that power content relationships, metadata, and discovery across the onX platform. You will design and build scalable backend services that model complex data relationships and deliver structured content to our suite of outdoor navigation apps.

This position reports to a Software Engineering Manager III.

Our backend engineers primarily work in Go running in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform. This role benefits from knowledge and experience working with Graph

QL and graph databases, as well as relational databases like Postgre

SQL for complex data modeling.

• Build and maintain scalable services to support new features and products across the onX suite of apps.
• Design and implement data models for complex content relationships and metadata.
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
• Assist in the creation, deployment, and management of services in Kubernetes.
• Participate in and drive architectural decisions involving our services.
• Design and instrument systems to monitor key performance indicators.
• Mentor and share knowledge with engineers on your team.
• Leverage and extend existing onX platform services.
• Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional team members and stakeholders.
• Lead by example – embody onX's company values, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Participate in an on‑call schedule to support backend services.

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:
  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:
  Boise, ;
  Charleston, SC;
  Dallas/Fort Worth, TX;
  Phoenix, AZ;
  Richmond, VA;
  Spokane, WA; and Vermont.

• B.S., M.S., or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field.
• Six or more years of professional software development experience, with API development as a primary focus for at least three of those years.
• Strong backend development experience with modern languages (Go strongly preferred; Python or Java also considered).
• Experience building and debugging distributed, scalable microservices architecture.
• Database design and optimization experience,…