Senior Backend Engineer

Role Description

Nabu Casa is looking for a full-time Elixir Backend Engineer to join our Cloud & Infrastructure team and work primarily on Home Assistant Cloud services.

• Build and maintain backend services primarily using Elixir.
• 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.
• 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.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and share best practices with the team.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience in back-end development.
• Professional experience developing production applications in Elixir.
• Experience with TypeScript.
• Basic knowledge of system administration.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.
• Be based in North America, Latin America, or Europe, and be able to regularly overlap with the team during the afternoon in Central European Time (CET).
• 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.

Requirements

• Experience with NestJS, Terraform, Grafana, or Python.
• Personal experience using Home Assistant.
• Knowledge of modern frontend application development.
• Affinity with open-source development and philosophy.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and production incident response.

Benefits

• Fully remote organization with flexible schedules.
• 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.
• A budget for your work hardware once you start.
• An annual smart home budget to ensure you keep up to date with the latest smart home offerings.
• A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
• One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
• When first offering a position, Nabu Casa aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates.