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title: 'Senior Full Stack Engineer, Cloud Platform at ALSO'
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# Senior Full Stack Engineer, Cloud Platform at ALSO

- **Company:** ALSO
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ridealso/b672c239-fcc2-4ea6-b139-8c1207f039e0

## Job description

About ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

At ALSO, we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who wants to own a capability from the data model all the way through to the screen — not a backend engineer who tolerates the frontend, and not a frontend engineer who just calls someone else's API, but someone who holds a high bar at both ends.

Our cloud platform is where a connected EV becomes more than a vehicle: telemetry arrives continuously from the field, services turn it into diagnostics and fleet intelligence, and a set of interfaces puts that capability in front of customers checking their vehicle, partners building on our APIs, and internal teams managing a growing fleet. You'd be designing and shipping backend microservices built for real scale and real reliability, then building the interfaces on top of them — in a genuine 0 to 1 environment where systems are still being designed, decisions are still open, and the patterns you set will shape how the team builds for years.

## What You'll Do

- Design and build backend microservices for secure, scalable connected-vehicle and fleet infrastructure — from data ingestion through product-facing APIs — owning each feature end to end: data model, service, API contract, interface, instrumentation, and post-launch operation
- Build the platform's user surfaces: the customer-facing web app, developer and partner portals, admin and configuration consoles, and internal fleet and operations tooling
- Improve core platform infrastructure — API design, database schema, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows — and contribute to shared services like the API gateway, caching, authentication, and schema migrations
- Build integrations with external services and partner platforms, designing contracts that stay maintainable over time
- Establish frontend foundations — component patterns, shared UI primitives, and data-fetching conventions — so the team builds new internal tools quickly instead of starting over each time
- Turn high-volume telemetry and fleet state into interfaces that are fast, dense, and genuinely usable under real operational pressure
- Ensure production readiness through automated testing, performance monitoring, and safe deployment practices

## What You'll Bring

- 7+ years building and operating production backend services you designed, not just maintained — strong service-boundary judgment and API design depth (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), including real versioning and backward compatibility work
- Data modeling and schema design across relational and non-relational stores, including live migrations, plus solid AWS experience with real operational exposure across compute, storage, data, and identity
- Event-driven architecture in production (Kafka, SQS/SNS, Redis, or similar), containers and orchestration (Docker in production, Kubernetes or equivalent), and OAuth2/OIDC/JWT/mTLS in practice
- Real production ownership — on call for what you built, debugged under pressure, fixed root causes — with solid performance and reliability instincts (profiling, concurrency, graceful degradation)
- Expert TypeScript/Node.js and a modern component framework (React preferred), with real depth on data-dense interfaces — tables, dashboards, filtering, real-time state — and the performance problems that come with them
- Design system fluency: you extend a component library cleanly rather than fighting it, and treat responsiveness, accessibility, and performance as defaults, even on internal tools nobody's watching
- Comfortable taking a rough Figma file or written brief and driving it to a shipped interface, asking good questions along the way
- Testing discipline wired into CI, with judgment on what's actually worth testing, and demonstrated success in a 0 to 1, highly autonomous setting
- Nice to have - Go experience, or proven ability to get productive in a new language fast — parts of our platform are written in Go
- Nice to have - Real-time systems (WebSockets, WebRTC, streaming state) and multi-tenant architecture
- Nice to have - IoT protocols (MQTT/CoAP), device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines
- Nice to have - Infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD ownership, and observability tooling (tracing, logging, alerting)
- Nice to have - Data visualization at scale, open source contributions, or prior EV/automotive/connected-device experience

The salary for this position ranges from $175,000 - $205,000 per year, depending on experience, qualifications, and location.

## Perks & Benefits

- Robust health coverage — excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
- Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny
- Flexible time off
- 401(k) match

Why ALSO.

We’re passionate about helping the world find a better way to get there—wherever it is you’re headed.

We’re located in the heart of Silicon Valley and have brought together a world-class team from some of the biggest brands in the technology, automotive, cycling, outdoor recreation and retail spaces.

Together we’re working hands-on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.

## About ALSO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ALSO is an electric mobility company designing and building small, vertically integrated electric vehicles for moving people and goods, originally incubated within Rivian.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, Unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; the company was formed as a stealth team within Rivian before spinning out as an independent entity.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Manufacturing / Electric Mobility
- **Target customers**: B2C (urban consumers) and B2B (logistics, delivery, and transportation partners)
- **Mission**: To build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous, with a focus on sustainability and rethinking transportation from first principles.

## Products & Services
Based on publicly available information, ALSO has not yet announced specific product names beyond the “TM” and “TM-” references on its website. The company is developing a vertically integrated technology platform that spans motors, batteries, electronics, and software. Its product lineup includes small EVs for both consumer and commercial use, with a flagship vehicle set to launch in early 2026.

- **[Flagship Small EV (unnamed)]**: A vertically integrated, small electric vehicle for urban and commercial use. It combines in-house powertrain, battery, electronics, and autonomy software. Launch expected in early 2026, initially in the U.S. and Europe. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/news)
- **Commercial Platform**: ALSO works with logistics, delivery, and transportation partners to deliver custom solutions at scale. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/company)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1–2.5B (unicorn status) as of March 2026 (latest valuation per Dealroom). [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/ridealso-com/)
- **Total Funding**: $505M across four rounds.
  - Corporate Round (Feb 2025) – 1 investor
  - Series B (Mar 2025) – $105M led by Eclipse
  - Venture Round (Aug 2025) – $200M led by Greenoaks
  - Series C (Mar 2026) – $200M led by Greenoaks, with participation from other investors
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse Ventures, Greenoaks. ALSO works with commercial partners in logistics and transportation sectors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 290.9% year-over-year to 205 employees (LinkedIn, as of mid-2026). The company is actively hiring 48 open positions across engineering, product, and operations. It operates in five countries (U.S., Taiwan, U.K., South Africa, China). Strong talent inflow from Rivian (56 employees), Tesla, Apple, and Cruise. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridealso)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Technology**: In-house development of motors, batteries, electronics, and software enables a tightly optimized, high-performance EV platform.
- **Rivian Pedigree**: Originally incubated within Rivian, benefiting from automotive rigor and advanced software/autonomy expertise.
- **Focus on Small EVs**: Addresses a rapidly growing market segment where 80% of car trips are under 15 miles, with urban population projected to reach 7 billion by 2050.
- **Strong Financial Backing**: $505M in funding from top-tier investors, providing ample runway for product launch and scaling.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Launch**: Introduce the flagship small EV in early 2026, first in the U.S. and Europe, then globally.
- **Commercial Expansion**: Deepen partnerships with logistics, delivery, and transportation companies to scale custom vehicle solutions.
- **Technology Platform**: Continue to advance in-house autonomy, sensing, and connectivity features to differentiate the user experience.
- **Talent Growth**: Rapidly hiring across engineering, design, and operations to support product development and future scaling.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees are described as “builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers” focused on creating sustainable, delightful mobility.
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount has tripled year-over-year, offering early employees significant impact and career acceleration.
- **Top-Tier Team**: Colleagues come from Rivian, Tesla, Apple, Cruise, and other elite companies, fostering a culture of craft and excellence.
- **Technical Depth**: Opportunities to work on cutting-edge EV hardware, software, autonomy, and battery systems. Open roles include Senior Software Engineer (ML), Motor Controls Engineer, Battery Design Engineer, and Staff Reliability Engineer.
- **Office Locations**: Hubs in Palo Alto (vehicle engineering, software, design), Seattle (customer experience & commerce), and Taichung, Taiwan (supply chain & logistics). The work policy is not explicitly stated but likely hybrid or office-first given the hardware focus.
- **Perks**: Not publicly detailed, but as a well-funded unicorn, competitive compensation and equity packages are standard.

## Sources
1. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/company)
2. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/news)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridealso)
4. [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/ridealso-com/)
5. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/)

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