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.

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 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 lot's 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