Geospatial & Visualization Engineer
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We are hiring a Software Engineer on the Analyst Platform team to help build the data visualization surface where operators and analysts make sense of Atreides data-the place where multi-domain telemetry becomes a map they can explore, compare, and act on. This is a frontend-leaning role. We are looking for someone who is comfortable in TypeScript and a modern web frontend, and who already has hands-on experience with both maps and data visualization-in any combination, from any direction. You will work alongside senior engineers who are explicit about mentorship, pairing, and sharing what they know. Many engineers at Atreides describe themselves as Multi-Stack rather than Full-Stack because we move between frontend, backend, data, and mapping surfaces as the problem demands; this role starts on the frontend, with a clear path toward broader range., * Pair with senior engineers on the visualization surface of the Atreides Analyst Platform, building and maintaining components that turn multi-domain telemetry-entities, trajectories, geofences, sensor footprints, heatmaps, time-series animations, before/after comparisons-into things operators and analysts can read at a glance.
- Work with the APIs that the Platform Engineering team owns to pull the data your visualizations need-understanding enough about the Lakehouse beneath to ask the right questions and request the right shapes, even if you do not own those pipelines yourself.
- Work with open geospatial data sources alongside commercial feeds, and develop a point of view on when each is appropriate.
- Thoughtfully integrate AI into your engineering workflow; our interview process will include a discussion of how you use AI to learn, prototype, and ship.
- Write clean, tested code, review your teammates' pull requests, and ask the questions the senior engineers wish they had asked.
- Collaborate closely with analysts, data engineers, and designers.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with TypeScript and a modern web framework (React, Svelte, Vue), with a portfolio or shipped work to point to.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience with maps and data visualization. We weight what you have shipped over how many years you have been shipping it, and we want to see both halves represented. Examples that count: a deck.gl or kepler.gl project, a turf.js plugin, a published map or atlas, a custom dashboard with D3.js or Plotly, a hobby tile server, work as a GIS analyst who learned to code, or production frontend work at a mapping-adjacent company.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, GIS, Geography, Earth Sciences, or a related field.
- Working familiarity with geospatial fundamentals-coordinate systems, projections, spatial indexing (H3 is the one you will see most at Atreides), common data formats (GeoJSON, vector tiles, PMTiles), and why a Mercator projection distorts the Arctic.
- Curiosity about the open geospatial ecosystem-OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps Foundation, OpenAddresses-and a willingness to form a point of view on open versus commercial sources over time.
- Strong written and verbal communication in English, and the willingness to ask the question you think might be too basic because the worst case is it turns out not to be.
- A thoughtful approach to using AI in your engineering workflow; we will discuss how you use AI to learn and to code.
- Bonus: contributions to an open-source mapping or geospatial project, a data visualization or cartography side project you can talk about (a map, a dashboard, an explainer), a background as an analyst or GIS practitioner, or any existing Canadian security clearance.
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Flexible remote work environment
- Additional benefits like flexible hours, work travel opportunities, competitive vacation time and parental leave
While meeting all of these criteria would be ideal, we understand that some candidates may meet most, but not all. If you're passionate, curious and ready to "work smart and get things done," we'd love to hear from you.