[Remote] Application Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vibrant Planet develops cloud-based, AI-driven tools that help land managers, communities, utilities, and insurers reduce wildfire and climate risk. The Application Software Engineer will build and ship full-stack features for wildfire resilience and utility applications, presenting optimization and simulation results through tables, charts, and interactive maps while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Our applications support decision making to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier. As application engineers, we build tools that land managers, fire districts, and utility planners use to make decisions to mitigate wildfire and climate risk, across our wildfire resilience and utilities applications. These applications run and present the results of optimizations and simulations as both statistics in tables and charts, and layers on a map
• We build full stack features within an Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and Postgres application stack. We collaborate with product, design, data engineering, infrastructure, science, and operations

Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping full-stack web applications
• Hands-on experience turning designs into responsive, accessible UIs
• You have worked closely with product and design partners
• Strong proficiency with SQL and relational databases
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
• Experience building interactive web maps with a working knowledge of geospatial fundamentals such as projections and spatial data formats (Geopackage, GeoTIFF, etc.)
• Domain expertise in a natural science/resource field (forestry, ecology, remote sensing, fire science, meteorology, or related field)
• Experience with Elixir and some front-end framework, preferably Phoenix LiveView
• Experience generating, serving, and consuming raster and vector tilesets (Tippecanoe, MBTiles/PMTiles)
• Experience with PostGIS or other spatial database tooling

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Company equity
• Cell phone stipend (per pay period)
• Home office setup allowance (one-time)

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