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