Software Engineer

Are you an engineer who wants to make a direct impact on the quality and accuracy of mapping tools? Do you want to be part of a team that develops essential tools for operators and mapmakers, contributing to the creation of highly accurate maps that are vital for various applications?

Our cross-functional team directly impacts the quality and accuracy of map-making tools. As an engineer on this team, you'll be instrumental in developing tools used by operators and mapmakers, ensuring they have the best possible interface and data pipeline management tools. Your efforts will contribute to creating highly accurate maps that are vital for various applications.

What you will do

• Work closely with a talented team to develop and refine tools that facilitate rapid and large-scale map creation and editing.
• Collaborate across teams to source the right data for your use case to achieve highly efficient human in the loop map making
• Engage with operators who use your software, gathering feedback to continuously improve the tools you build.
• Split your work between creating user interface applications and managing data pipeline flows, ensuring both are optimized for performance and usability.
• Partner with teams focused on AI-driven map data generation, providing tools that significantly improve these products through human-in-the-loop processes.
• Guide junior engineers, helping them grow in their roles while driving key technical decisions to advance the team’s capabilities.
• Drive the technical decisions to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices.
• Develop resilient, scalable applications using the best cloud technologies and programming languages for each use case.
• Take charge of projects, both within your team and across the organization, to ensure successful outcomes.
• Support hiring for team vacancies, and investments into team and product health.
• Be involved in every phase of the project lifecycle, from gathering requirements to designing, coding, testing, and integrating solutions.

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or 5+ years of equivalent experience in modern programming languages such Java, Python, and Typescript.
• Experience with data processing tools, frameworks, and cloud technologies.
• Proven experience in building and launching data pipelines into production.
• Ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies, and lead others in doing the same.
• Comfortable with both written and verbal communication in English.
• Solid understanding of computer science principles, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
• In-depth knowledge of professional software engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience in writing component-level system designs and evaluating technical feasibility trade-offs.
• This position is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Therefore, we can only accept candidates that already live in or are in the process of relocating to Amsterdam area.