Senior Engineer (geospatial experience)

Ryz Labs is looking for a Senior Engineer to take ownership of key parts of the platform, from system design and architecture to production code and long-term reliability.This role has one specific requirement: hands-on experience working with maps, coordinates, and geospatial data. A major part of the platform involves extracting geometry from documents, placing it at real-world coordinates, measuring it, and exporting it for use in the field.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production software, with increasing ownership of architecture and technical decisions.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience working with maps, coordinates, geometry, or geospatial data in a real-world application.
• Experience with one or more of the following: GIS, GeoJSON, KML, routing, asset mapping, fleet tracking, logistics, agriculture, drones, or similar geospatial applications.
• Experience working with messy real-world data, including inconsistent formats, missing fields, and unreliable or incomplete sources.
• Experience building systems where incorrect outputs can have meaningful business consequences.
• Strong judgment around data quality, correctness, and when a system should explicitly indicate that an answer cannot be determined.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Background in civil engineering, surveying, asphalt, construction estimating, or related fields.
• Familiarity with construction plans, stationing, alignments, and pay items.
• Experience with hauling, logistics, routing, or haul-distance calculations.
• Experience with DOT bid documents.
• Familiarity with tools such as Bluebeam, B2W, HeavyBid, or HardDollar.
• Experience with 3D geospatial data, including terrain and surface models, point clouds, cut/fill volumes, or similar applications.
• Experience with tools or libraries such as Turf.js, proj4js, PostGIS, or comparable geospatial technologies.What You'll OwnParts of the platform architecture, with increasing ownership as the team grows.
• The map and geometry layer: extracting geometry from documents, placing it at real latitude and longitude, measuring it, and exporting it for field use.
• Geospatial distance, routing, and hauling-related functionality.
• Production code and significant architectural decisions.
• Code quality through reviews, engineering standards, and CI.
• Monitoring, observability, and systems designed to fail safely when an output cannot be determined reliably.

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world. Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years. At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

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