Backend Engineer
About The Position
Nabu Casa is looking for a full-time Backend Engineer to join our Cloud & Infrastructure team and work primarily on Home Assistant Cloud services. As one of the most active open-source projects in the world, Home Assistant exists because of its community. To empower this community and allow more users to enjoy the harder-to-reach features of Home Assistant, we have created our subscription service, Home Assistant Cloud. This service gives the community access to features usually reserved for power users with expensive hardware at home. Current features such as remote access and text-to-speech / speech-to-text support are made available without ever compromising on privacy. We're looking for someone who will maintain the existing features and infrastructure and help us create valuable new features with efficiency and privacy in mind.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional experience in back-end development.
- At least two years of professional experience in Node.js/Typescript.
- Basic knowledge of system administration.
- Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS).
- Experience with Git & Github.
- Be based in America and able to cover Eastern Pacific timezones (UTC-5 UTC-8).
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
- Experience building or maintaining authentication and/or identity management systems.
- Experience working with payment, billing, or subscription platforms.
- Experience operating production systems, debugging live issues, and maintaining service reliability at scale.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in NestJS, Elixir, Terraform, Grafana or Python.
- Personal experience using Home Assistant.
- Knowledge in modern frontend app development.
- Affinity with open-source development and philosophy.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and production incident response.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance, and reliable backend applications.
- Participate in code reviews as part of our collaborative development process.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define, design, and ship new features.
- Contribute to maintaining and improving the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the cloud services.
- Implement security and data protection best practices in your work.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and share best practices with the team.
- Help operate and support production services, including troubleshooting issues, improving reliability, and participating in the operational ownership of cloud systems.
- Work on authentication, subscription, and payment-related services that power Home Assistant Cloud.
Benefits
- Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
- Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
- Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
- A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may keep this equipment for personal use.
- An annual smart home budget ensures you keep up-to-date with the latest smart homes offer.
- A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
- One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
- If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining them.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
