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. Your ability to leverage your technical expertise to iterate quickly and independently will be instrumental in our success.
About Your Role At Ready ⚡️
- Leverage your expertise in geospatial products to develop key user-facing geospatial applications.
- Work with geospatial libraries such as Mapbox and DeckGL to create geospatial solutions
- Apply your understanding of spatial-temporal data concepts to solve complex geospatial challenges and optimize data processing for real-time applications.
- Stay up to date with latest geospatial technologies and innovations to continuously level up
- Take the lead in developing and continuously enhancing customer-facing features of our geospatial products.
- Ensure that these features align with customer needs, improve user experiences, and drive user engagement, focusing on functionality, scalability, and user-friendliness
- Architect applications with scalability and performance in mind, ensuring that they can handle increased loads and provide a smooth user experience as the user base grows.
- Continuously assess and enhance the scalability of the existing application by identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimizations. Evolve the architecture to accommodate future growth
- Collaborate effectively with policy, product, designers and clients to help design technical solutions and translate them into well-structured and maintainable code.
- Champion a culture of knowledge sharing and mentorship within the engineering team.
- Provide guidance, code reviews, and constructive feedback to junior engineers.
- Encourage participation in technical discussions and collaborative problem-solving to empower other team members to make meaningful contributions to projects
A Bit About You 🥇
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer with a focus on building geospatial products; ideal candidates with experience at various stages of scale within fast-moving startups.
- Strong coding skills in TypeScript and JavaScript; experience with GraphQL and Node.js.
- Strong relational database skills; experience with PostgreSQL specifically is a plus;
- Familiarity with geospatial libraries such as Mapbox and DeckGL.
- 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.
- Understanding of spatial-temporal data concepts is advantageous.
- You’re organized, thoughtful, approachable, creative, and rigorous.
- You demonstrate bias-to-action, a collaborative working style, and a preference for the right tool for the job.
- You enjoy building lean, inclusive, and culturally strong teams.
- You excel in a highly-distributed and asynchronous environment.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver results efficiently, as the work will be directly customer-facing.
About Ready 🚀
- Creative problem solvers approaching an antiquated system with a revolutionary viewpoint
- Humble but ambitious, knowledgeable but curious, persistent but not obnoxious
- Concise and effective in written and spoken communication
- Comfortable working remotely
About What You Get…
- Competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside
- Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents
- Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups
- A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and and a big goal
- To get away - we all convene 2x / year for [optional] retreats
- We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you
- The charter to a build product in a market that is set to receive $65 billion in grant funding across the United States