Manager III, Software Development Content Data Platform

ABOUT onX

Were a team of builders adventurers and risk takers using technology to help people confidently explore the outdoors. Driven by our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone we build products that optimize every outdoor experience and inspire confidence to get out and go further.

Were a high-growth tech company. The pace is fast the work takes grit and ambiguity is part of the job. As the world changes around us we adapt - continuously evolving how we build prioritize and deliver.

Our business moves quickly and theres real opportunity to shape what we build next. Each of our verticals - Hunt Offroad Backcountry and Fish - is at a different stage of maturity which means the challenges you encounter and the impact you have will vary depending on where you sit and what the business needs most.

We operate with an experimentation mindset continually iterating and improving how we solve problems. We expect our people to use the latest tooling including AI thoughtfully and responsibly pairing human judgment with technology to increase quality speed and impact.

Our impact comes to life through the products we build in the stories of our customers and in our growing commitment to land stewardship and recreational access.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

onX is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Content Data Platform team -- the engineering team responsible for the data infrastructure that puts accurate current and complete content on onXs maps. Youll lead a cross-functional team of data engineers and geospatial analysts who own the full map content data lifecycle: ingesting authoritative data from hundreds of sources conflating multi-source inputs into a canonical truth with per-fact provenance and delivering consistent outputs to every downstream consumer. This is a high-impact role at the center of onXs content strategy operating within the Content Engineering organization and reporting to the Director of Engineering.

As an onX Software Development Manager your day to day responsibilities would look like:

(Essential Job Duties)

• Make great engineers better. Youll support your teammates with individual goal-setting professional development and mentoring. Youll coach engineers through structured growth plans and partner with senior/staff-level ICs to set technical direction for the team.
• Deliver the platform. Collaborating with the Data Engineering team youll drive delivery of the Content Foundation roadmap: extending our unified data ingestion platform to all content types proving fact-level provenance on land ownership data at a national scale and establishing versioned data contracts with downstream consumers.
• Build great teams. Youll work closely with your peers to hire smart creative and kind engineers. Youll be responsible for building and sustaining a healthy team culture where ownership and collaboration are the norm. Youll mentor across disciplinary lines: geospatial domain experts are your partners and youll raise the bar on data quality craft and engineering best practices across that boundary not just within your direct team.
• Drive cross-team convergence. Youll partner with the Data & Analytics EM to converge on shared Lakehouse infrastructure a shared metadata and lineage platform a unified analytics infrastructure and consistent environment patterns across teams.
• Own operational excellence. Youll establish and maintain production reliability practices including SLO definition monitoring and alerting incident management on-call sustainability and postmortem culture for a platform that directly affects the accuracy of maps used by millions of hunters anglers and outdoor enthusiasts.
• Embed quality as a platform constraint. Youll drive a shift-left approach to data quality: schema contracts enforced at ingestion registration with metadata store automated validation gates before data reaches downstream consumers and SLOs tied to data freshness and completeness not just platform uptime. You hold the bar for data quality and governance high and dont let it slip under delivery pressure.
• Translate and communicate. Youll translate business strategy and content team priorities into clear engineering direction helping your team understand why their work matters. Youll articulate the value of platform investments to stakeholders who care about outcomes like fresher trail data or more accurate land ownership boundaries -- not pipeline architecture. Youre effective in a matrixed environment where your ability to influence without authority matters as much as your ability to execute
• Collaborate. Youll serve as the engineering interface for vertical product teams (Hunt Offroad Fish Backcountry) data delivery and the geospatial editing team. Youll manage dependencies push back on one-off pipeline requests in favor of durable platform capabilities and maintain high cross-functional alignment.

LOCATION

onX has created a thriving distributed workforce community across several US locations. This position can be performed from an onX corporate office Basecamp or Connection Hub.

• Corporate Offices: onX was founded in Montana with offices in Missoula and Bozeman. If you prefer to work in an office at least part of the time this is a great option.
• Basecamps: Basecamps are established virtual workforce communities where a sizable number of distributed team members group for work volunteering socializing and adventure.
  • Our current Basecamps are located within a 90-mile radius of the following: Austin TX; Charlotte NC; Denver CO; Kalispell MT; Minneapolis MN; Portland OR; Salt Lake City UT; and Seattle WA.
• Connection Hubs: Connection Hub locations are smaller emerging communities of distributed team members.
  • Our current Connection Hubs are located within a 60-mile radius of the following: Boise ID; Charleston SC; Dallas/Fort Worth TX; Phoenix AZ; Richmond VA; Spokane WA; and Vermont.

WHAT YOULL BRING

• At least five (5) years of experience directly managing software engineers.
• Proven experience leading teams building data platform or data infrastructure systems -- not just BI or analytics but the pipelines storage layers and operational systems that produce data other teams depend on.
• Experience leading a team through migration off a legacy system to modern infrastructure including sequencing work without breaking production and maintaining velocity across the transition.
• Proven track record of breaking down large long-horizon projects into milestones that deliver incremental business value -- you dont let platform work disappear into a multi-year black box.
• Youve managed or closely partnered with cross-functional teams that arent organized along traditional engineering/analytics lines and you know how to build systems that serve domain experts as primary operators.
• You have strong hiring and team development instincts. You know how to identify and recruit strong data engineers how to evaluate domain-specific expertise and how to develop engineers into modern data platform patterns.
• You can engage substantively on architectural decisions and are comfortable challenging existing assumptions -- ELT patterns schema evolution change data capture data contracts compute engine trade-offs -- and help your team resolve open questions rather than escalate them.
• You communicate well with executives and non-technical stakeholders and can build organizational buy-in for long-horizon infrastructure investments while pushing the team for incremental delivery.
• Youre comfortable using AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity and can help your team adopt them effectively.
• A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onXs Company Values.
• Permanent US work authorization is a condition of employment with onX.
• Ability to travel for multiple days to a corporate office or other onX strategic location such as a Basecamp.

ADDED BONUSES

Though not required we would be thrilled to consider candidates with any of the following:

• Experience with the GCP data stack: Managed Spark BigQuery BigLake Pub/Sub Managed Airflow.
• Familiarity with Apache Iceberg Spark/PySpark DuckDB dbt and Airflow.
• Exposure to geospatial data processing (GDAL PostGIS Apache Sedona DuckDB spatial extensions).
• Familiarity with Knowledge Graph architectures or graph data models.
• Experience managing teams in an outdoor mapping or location technology context.
• You have a B.S. or M.S. in computer science data engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.

COMPENSATION

onX is committed to compensating all employees fairly and equitably for their contributions. For this position applicants can expect to make between $150000 to $188000 upon hire. The pay range will vary based on experience skills certifications and education among other factors as required in the job addition full-time onX employees are eligible for a grant of common share options with a vesting schedule and a potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance.

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU

• Competitive salaries annual bonuses equity and opportunities for growth
• Comprehensive health benefits including a no-monthly-cost medical plan
• Parental leave plan of 5 or 13 weeks fully paid
• 401k matching at 100% for the first 3% you save and 50% from 3-5%
• Company-wide outdoor adventures and amazing outdoor industry perks
• Annual Get Out Get Active funds to fuel your active lifestyle in and outside of the gym
• Flexible time away package that includes PTO STO VTO quiet weeks and floating holidays

PERFORMANCE ESSENTIALS

In this role success is driven by cognitive abilities such as concentration and problem-solving essential for our computer-centric tasks. onX will explore reasonable accommodations to ensure that individuals with diverse abilities can fully engage in and contribute to the essential physical and mental functions of the job. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact us at .

Position open until filled.

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At onX we believe that unique perspectives make us stronger. By bringing together people with different experiences ideas and viewpoints we fuel innovation and move closer to our mission of awakening the adventurer in everyone. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fairness not only in hiring but also in development compensation and promotion. Our goal is to build an inclusive community where every team member can show up authentically and thrive. Together we win as one team. Come join us!

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