Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer

Description:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong background in geospatial products to join our dynamic team.
• In this role, you will play a pivotal role in developing, scaling, and maintaining our user-facing geospatial applications and systems.
• You will leverage your expertise in geospatial products to develop key user-facing geospatial applications.
• You will work with geospatial libraries such as Mapbox and DeckGL to create geospatial solutions.
• You will apply your understanding of spatial-temporal data concepts to solve complex geospatial challenges and optimize data processing for real-time applications.
• Staying up to date with the latest geospatial technologies and innovations will be essential for continuous improvement.
• You will take the lead in developing and continuously enhancing customer-facing features of our geospatial products.
• Ensuring that these features align with customer needs, improve user experiences, and drive user engagement will be a focus, emphasizing functionality, scalability, and user-friendliness.
• You will architect applications with scalability and performance in mind, ensuring they can handle increased loads and provide a smooth user experience as the user base grows.
• Continuously assessing and enhancing the scalability of the existing application by identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimizations will be part of your responsibilities.
• You will collaborate effectively with policy, product, designers, and clients to help design technical solutions and translate them into well-structured and maintainable code.
• Championing a culture of knowledge sharing and mentorship within the engineering team will be important.
• You will provide guidance, code reviews, and constructive feedback to junior engineers.
• Encouraging participation in technical discussions and collaborative problem-solving will empower other team members to make meaningful contributions to projects.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer with a focus on building geospatial products is essential; ideal candidates will have experience at various stages of scale within fast-moving startups.
• Strong coding skills in TypeScript and JavaScript are necessary; experience with GraphQL and Node.js is also required.
• Strong relational database skills are needed; experience with PostgreSQL specifically is a plus.
• Familiarity with geospatial libraries such as Mapbox and DeckGL is required.
• You should be able to provide valuable technical insights, helping stakeholders make informed decisions regarding geospatial product features and functionalities.
• Exceptional communication skills for effective collaboration with product teams and clients are necessary.
• An understanding of spatial-temporal data concepts is advantageous.
• You should be organized, thoughtful, approachable, creative, and rigorous.
• A demonstrated bias-to-action, a collaborative working style, and a preference for the right tool for the job are important.
• You should enjoy building lean, inclusive, and culturally strong teams.
• The ability to excel in a highly-distributed and asynchronous environment is required.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver results efficiently, as the work will be directly customer-facing, are essential.

Benefits:

• You will receive a competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside.
• Competitive (and ever-expanding) benefits for employees and dependents will be provided.
• Opportunities to learn and grow in all things startups will be available.
• You will have a chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and a big goal.
• We convene 2 times a year for optional retreats to get away and connect.
• We are actively shaping our benefits program, allowing you to have a say in which benefits matter to you.
• You will have the charter to build a product in a market that is set to receive $65 billion in grant funding across the United States.