Backend Developer

Nabu Casa, Inc was founded in 2018 by the founders of both Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform, and Home Assistant OS, the operating system that turns your device into a smart home hub powered by Home Assistant. These projects have seen an immense growth and have helped shape DIY home automation communities around the world.

After being involved in the Internet of Things industry for many years, we realized that there is a need for a cloud service that aims to put users, their privacy and their data first. Such a cloud can only be built as an extension to a platform that does the same: Home Assistant.

With Nabu Casa we are building this cloud service and we’re calling it Home Assistant Cloud.

We are a profitable company with no external investors. Our funding comes directly from users who subscribe to Home Assistant Cloud and purchase Home Assistant hardware, ensuring our only stakeholders are our employees and our users. We also support other open-source projects, including those focused on hardware, standards, and voice technology.

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

Nabu Casa is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from all over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.

This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the workday. You will report to our Cloud team’s engineering manager, based in France.

Core to the establishment of Nabu Casa was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide all the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to make sure all our employees, regardless of country of origin, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:

• 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.

When first offering a position to a new member, 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. For this role, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:

• Canada 128.000 CAD.

• US (TBD)

These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.

Nabu Casa funds the development of Home Assistant and other projects at the Open Home Foundation, Nabu Casa is best known as the organization driving the development of Home Assistant, the world's largest free and open-source smart home platform. More than two million households benefit from its home automation capabilities. Powered by a worldwide community of open-source developers, GitHub ranked it the most active open-source project in the world in 2024.

We were initially founded to ensure that the development of Home Assistant would remain sustainable as it kept growing, but over time it has grown to support more open home initiatives. In 2024, the Open Home Foundation was formed to protect these open-source projects and ensure they thrive into the future. Nabu Casa is a commercial partner of the foundation, and our principles are aligned with a joint commitment to privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home. These are the values that we put at the heart of every decision we make. It’s woven into our architecture, licensing, community, and everything else.

Nabu Casa is profitable, has no external investors, and our only funding comes from people subscribing to Home Assistant Cloud and buying Home Assistant hardware. That means the only stakeholders we have to concern ourselves with are our employees and our users.

Other Open Home Foundation projects and collaborations supported by Nabu Casa include:

• Open hardware tools (e.g.,ESPHome, ESP Web Tools)

• Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-Wave JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi)

• Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper)

• Music Assistant

• Apply for the role

• Our team will review your application with the hiring manager

• HR Screening

• Live Coding Session

• Team interview

• Interview with our CTO

• Offer

• Join our team!