Geospatial Software Developer
Maxar Technologies
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Job Title: Geospatial Software Engineer
Maxar is looking for a Geospatial Software Engineer to join its eGIS(Enterprise Geospatial Information Systems) team, with a passion for solving complex problems with customer driven objectives and is willing to learn and develop the tools and technologies related to GIS applications.
Our talented eGIS team at Maxar consists of full stack developers, data scientists, Enterprise Architects and database experts who work closely together to build plugins, dashboards, tools and workflows for our Geospatial Products and Production systems supporting our internal and external stakeholders.
Location: Westminster, CO
Life with Us
Your Project: This role would require the team member to be a quick learner and develop full stack solutions to enable and automate workflows within client-side software and also web based
applications. You will contribute your expertise to develop front-end UI and also back-end
architecture necessary to meet customer requirements. You will be responsible for gathering customer requirements, driving toward deadlines, collaborating with the eGIS DBA, and providing guidance as a
SME related to the GIS applications. You would be occasionally tasked with upgrading the GIS environment and infrastructure maintenance and deployments. You will assist with training, documentation, and presentations related to custom solutions.
Your Career: We are profoundly serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
Our team is full of talented individuals wearing many hats to accomplish our jobs effectively. We believe in supporting each other in our day-to-day tasks to ensure deadlines are met. We believe in trying creative solutions with cutting edge technology to push the envelope for geospatial solutions. We work in a highly collaborative environment striving toward the same goals. We work to grow ourselves and each other professionally. We encourage open-dialogue and to think outside the box.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, peer group collaboration, hackathons, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
This position is hybrid with several days a week on-site with your colleagues in Westminster, CO.
What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):
- Develop new ESRI/ QGIS related add-ins using the SDK, webapps and tools to support internal and external stake holders.
- Adapt mission requirements to develop new tools, capabilities, or enhance/upgrade existing ones.
- Incorporate customer feedback into software products.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure quality.
- Build and optimize REST APIs necessary for application or internal customer consumption.
- Write and optimize ETLs in both Linux and Windows environments using scripting languages: Python and other ancillary languages with associated libraries.
- Expand the company’s geospatial capabilities with open-source and cloud native services and software.
- Develop tools or workflows to assist other production teams like Vivid, Tasking, Collection Planning and other Constellation Management teams.
- Collaborate with other developers throughout the development process, both those on your immediate team and those on other teams that build supporting software.
- Evolve your language skills by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools and technologies.
Minimum requirements for this position:
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience. Desired degree’s include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience
- 4+ years of strong coding experience in Python, C#, Java, JavaScript
- GIS experience and knowledge of raster & imagery
- Experience with GIS technology in an operational environment via ESRI ArcPro, ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap and Catalog), or QGIS. Experience with Add-ins for QGIS/ESRI is a major plus.
- Experience with DevOps and automation tools (e.g. Docker, Ansible, Gitlab).
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience developing microservices or web services.
- Familiarity with writing complex queries using database languages.
- Must be able to quickly shift priorities due to business and/or customer requests.
- Ability to work in a geographically dispersed, collaborative team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Desired degree’s include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Science,
- Information Systems, Software Engineering, Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry
- or a related field
- Experience with microservice architectures.
- Knowledge of ArcGIS Enterprise; including ArcPro, ArcServer, and Portal
- DevOps experience with IaaS (Kubernetes and docker deployments)
- Understanding or exposure to AWS Cloud Services: Airflow, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, and Lambdas
- Understanding of commercial imagery and production workflows
In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
