Software Engineer

5 Months ago • All levels • ~ $60,372 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Software Engineer position involves developing and optimizing a highly scalable production system for an AI platform focused on object detection within the Geo Intelligence team. Responsibilities include creating resilient, high-scale, low-latency, distributed microservices that run on hundreds of cloud nodes, solving complex technical challenges, and collaborating with ML and GIS engineers. The role emphasizes integrating geospatial data sources and developing image processing pipelines to provide real-time, on-demand geospatial insights. The company, which started in 2020, has secured $35 million in Series A funding and works with clients in various sectors, including intelligence and defense. The role is designed to turn months of manual work into minutes, with much better results.

Must have:

Strong practical knowledge of Python or experience with dynamic typing.
Experience integrating geospatial data sources and image processing pipelines.
A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Good grasp of software engineering fundamentals (unit testing, CI/CD).

Good to have:

Good understanding of Computer Vision.
Experience designing and deploying large-scale systems in AWS.
Good knowledge of Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools.

Perks:

Cutting-edge innovative projects for Tier 1 customers.
Opportunity to apply knowledge to industrial-scale innovation.
Healthy work-life balance.
Innovative start-up with impactful work.
Friendly atmosphere with diverse colleagues.
Personalized benefits (learning, wellbeing, healthcare).
Competitive salary based on experience.

13 skills required

13 skills required for this role

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ci-cd

kubernetes

redis

microservices

computer-vision

object-detection

aws

python

docker

postgresql

innovation

quality-control

reproducibility

Job Details

Satellite and drone imagery access is on the rise, and traditional image processing methods are struggling to keep up. We’ve never had more data, and yet it’s never harder than ever to gain meaningful insights.

Our scalable AI platform enables custom model training on global features, providing real-time, on-demand geospatial insights with impressive speed and accuracy. The application turns months of manual work into mere minutes, and with much better results. We work with customers from various domains, from intelligence and defence, local and federal governments, to small and large enterprise enterprises, which requires us to have a lot of flexibility on how we deploy and maintain our services.

We kicked off in 2020 and have secured $35 million in series A funding from a lineup of top US and European investors, among which Microsoft M12, Point72 Ventures, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, SAFRAN, and ISAI/Capgemini.

We are searching for a senior software engineer to play a key role in the further development of our AI platform for object detection. You will be part of the Geo Intelligence team responsible for building and optimizing a highly scalable production system.

In particular, you will

Work within a highly motivated team to create resilient, high-scale, low latency, distributed microservices that run on hundreds of nodes in the cloud
Solve complex technical challenges as we push the limits ML inference on vast amounts of geospatial data
Collaborate with a team of ML Engineers and GIS engineers to create and maintain cutting-edge GIS software products

YOUR PROFILE

You have strong practical knowledge of Python or experience with dynamic typing
You like the challenge of integrating different geospatial data sources and developing image processing pipelines
You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, and like to solve technical challenges independently
You have experience with various geospatial tools such as: GDAL, raster.io, ARCGis, QGis...
You are familiar with databases such as PostgreSQL
You have good grasp of software engineering fundamentals: unit testing, CI/CD, automated quality assurance, integration testing, reliability, and reproducibility
You are outcome-oriented, and keep the big picture in mind to proactively identify and solve issues

Ideally:

You have good understanding of Computer Vision
You have experience designing, developing and deploying large scale systems or pipelines in AWS
You have good knowledge of Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools and Docker
You have experience working with CRS systems

Tech Stack

Python
Fast API
Postgres
Docker
Kubernetes
Redis
AWS
GDAL
Raster.io

WHY JOIN US?

- Cutting-edge innovative projects for leading Tier 1 enterprise customers in a wide range of industries.

- Opportunity to apply your knowledge to practical industrial-scale innovation, developing your skills on a dynamic team of talented colleagues, guided by science and fueled by passion.

- Healthy work-life balance

- Innovative start-up where your work can have an impact that matters and lasts.

- Meaningful work: Innovation focused, global-scale, real-world problems (not piece-meal work in fantasy worlds that go stale a year later with the next sequel)

- Friendly atmosphere, with amazing and passionate colleagues from all backgrounds and nationalities.

- Personalized benefits (learning opportunities, mental wellbeing programs, opportunity to personalize your benefits according to your needs, healthcare plan)

- A competitive salary based on experience and qualiﬁcations.