Senior Python Backend Developer

Company Overview

The company we're hiring for is a quickly growing technology scale-up that has received multiple international awards for working at the forefront of new geospatial AI technology with global Fortune 500 customers.

If you're all about tackling tough challenges and turning innovative ideas all the way from prototype to ready-to-go solutions, we'd love to get to know you!

Role & Responsibilities

• Take on an expert and mentoring role for other members of the team

Work within a highly motivated team to advance the development of a state-of-the-art Geospatial AI Platform and delivery tools.

• Develop Raster Data Lake capable of efficiently storing and seamlessly serving vast amounts of raster data measured in petabytes
• Develop Vector Data Lake with the capacity to effectively store and seamlessly serve billions of features
• Implement high-performance and maintainable server-side code that will run in parallel on hundreds of nodes in the cloud to deliver value for a variety of different uses and applications in the geospatial AI domain
• Optimize server-side services and write the tools which are then used by the end users
• Work closely with the engineering manager and give feedback on technical feasibility, risks, and approximate effort of high-level feature requests
• Take a leading role in the decision-making process for key technical questions for delivery tools
• Perform code reviews and actively engage with the team's goal of maintaining clean and readable code and lean documentation

Requirements

MUST HAVE

• You are willing to relocate to Austria (Europe) and work on-site at the company headquarters
• 7+ years of experience in software development
• Strong Python skills
• You are familiar with databases such as PostgreSQL
• You have a good grasp of software engineering fundamentals: unit testing, CI/CD, automated quality assurance, integration testing, reliability, and reproducibility
• You like the challenge of integrating different data sources, developing large-scale APIs and GIS tools
• You are a good communicator, enjoy working in a team and are quick on your feet
• You feel comfortable working in a start-up/scale-up with a fast-moving environment, very flat hierarchies and lots of innovation

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• Experience in geospatial (e.g. PostGIS)
• Experience in a start-up/scale-up
• Experience in customer-facing roles

TECH STACK

• Python
• Fast API
• Rasterio
• Geopandas
• Shapely
• Postgres
• PostGIS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure

Benefits

• Full visa sponsorship
• Attractive compensation
• 5 weeks of paid vacation every year
• Full social benefits such as European health insurance
• Drive cutting-edge projects for leading Tier 1 enterprise customers in a wide range of industries
• Full relocation support