Backend Developer

About the role

Nabu Casa is looking for a full-time backend developer 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. What you are going to do 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 with 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. What you need to have 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 Canada and able to cover Eastern → Pacific timezones (UTC-5 → UTC-8) Fluent in English, both written and spoken It would be great if you also have 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