Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

🕒 July 7

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $105k - $129.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Nabu Casa

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

IoT • Home Automation • Privacy

Nabu Casa is the company behind Home Assistant, a smart home control platform that allows users to manage their home devices from anywhere. With a focus on privacy and data encryption, Nabu Casa offers Home Assistant Cloud, enabling remote access and control of home automation systems without storing user data in the cloud. The service is compatible with popular voice assistants like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, as well as Nabu Casa's own voice assistant, Assist. By providing these services, Nabu Casa supports the ongoing development of open-source projects like Home Assistant and ESPHome. The company operates without any external investors, prioritizing user needs and data privacy.

📋 Description

• 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 • Collaborate cross-functionally to define, design, and ship new features • Maintain and improve the performance, quality, and responsiveness of cloud services • Implement security and data protection best practices • Help operate and support production services • Troubleshoot issues and improve reliability • Participate in the operational ownership of cloud systems • Work on authentication, subscription, and payment-related services powering Home Assistant Cloud • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and share best practices with the team • Report to the Cloud team's Engineering Manager

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Ability 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 • 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

• 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; after three years, you may keep this equipment for personal use • An annual smart home budget • A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace • One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects • Work time for maintaining Home Assistant-related side projects • Benefits required by the country of residence • Flexible schedule with no fixed schedule • Total compensation targeted at the 75th percentile for the role, seniority, and local market rates