Senior Geospatial Engineer

Reports to: Tech Lead

Location: Sydney or Melbourne (hybrid)

Role Type: Permanent, Full Time

Level: Senior

Introduction

Kablamo is a fast-growing cloud digital product development company. Founded in 2017 in Australia, the business has grown quickly over the last several years, including the expansion of the team to Canada in 2021. We are proud to have assembled an amazing list of customers, including some of the best known enterprise and government organisations, in Australia and Canada. We’re looking to further accelerate our growth in both markets, and we’re seeking a Senior Geospatial Engineer to deliver new products to market.

Kablamo is proud to be an Advanced AWS Consulting partner, and we’ve been recognised as a global leader in designing and building cloud-based data and AI/ML solutions. At the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector conference, Kablamo won the “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” award for our work building bushfire prediction data platforms in Australia – we were selected from more than 1,800 AWS global partners. Since then, Kablamo has extended our experience and reputation in designing and building bushfire intelligence platforms, including our in-house software platform, Firestory.

The Role

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong background in geospatial technologies. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end development and extensive experience handling and processing geospatial data. You will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining geospatial applications for our enterprise and government customers and for Kablamo’s internal software products.

Over the last few years, Kablamo has focused on growing our experience and customer base in building spatial software solutions. Specifically, we have designed and built world-leading situational awareness and incident intelligence platforms for some of Australia’s latest emergency services agencies. We want to keep growing this part of our business, and we have a pipeline of exciting spatial software projects that focus on multi-hazard incident intelligence for fire agencies and other emergency services organisations in the private and public sectors.

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will lead the development of complex geospatial applications from inception to deployment. This includes designing scalable architectures, implementing robust data processing pipelines, and creating intuitive user interfaces. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX/UI designers, data scientists, and other engineers, to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Your expertise in handling geospatial data will be crucial in implementing best practice approaches in areas such as optimising data storage, and building responsive and performance visualisation of spatial information. These best practices will likely include software development, code reviews, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.

Moreover, you will mentor junior developers, helping them grow their technical skills and knowledge in geospatial technologies. You will stay current with the latest trends and advancements in both software engineering and geospatial fields, as you will play a significant role in driving innovation within our team and with our customers.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience architecting and building spatial software solutions.
• Expertise in geospatial technologies such as GDAL, GeoServer, TurfJS, Orb, GeoPandas, Rasterio, and spatial databases (e.g., PostGIS, Spatialite, GeoPackage).
• Experience building with online mapping software, such as Mapbox, MapLibre, ArcGISJS, or CesiumJS.
• Intermediate to advanced experience in modern front-end frameworks and libraries such as React, Solid, Svelte, or Vue.js.
• Strong back-end development skills in two or more languages, such as Node.JS, Python, Go, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for deploying and managing geospatial applications.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of general database technologies, both SQL and NoSQL.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Leadership and mentorship experience: Ability to lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and guide technical decisions.
• 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack development.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with with ArcGIS Desktop or QGIS.
• Familiarity with web map tiling technologies.
• Experience with big data technologies for processing large-scale geospatial data.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Certifications in GIS, geospatial technologies, or cloud platforms.

Career Progression:

• Technical Lead
• Principal/Staff Engineer

Hiring Process:

• 15-min intro chat with our TA team
• 1-hr Technical interview
• 1-hr Final/Cultural interview
• References
• Offer!

Why work at Kablamo?

Our Culture

We acknowledge a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, enables for greater innovation and produces benefits including improved performance, improved employee happiness and wellbeing, and superior outcomes for our customers. We attribute our success to all our unique and charismatic Kablamites. Through our fortnightly back to base and our debate Thunderdomes, we enable our Kablamites to provide feedback, share ideas, challenge the status quo and technically challenge each other constructively.

The PERKS!!!

• Kablamo bonus scheme
• Flexible work environment with offices located in Sydney and Melbourne
• Career growth (we really do promote from within!)
• Individual training budget
• Online rewards platform
• Regular social events
• Blogging rewards
• Paid birthday leave
• Anniversary bonus
• Referral bonus
• Parental Leave top up
• Employee Assistance Program
• Swag
• Work abroad for up to 3 weeks per year (some restrictions apply)

Kablamo is a proud equal-opportunity employer. We make our hiring decisions solely based on your skills and experience and the perspectives and value you can bring to our team. Kablamo believes that diversity is vital to providing the best service to our clients, and we are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.

Kablamo would like to thank all candidates for their interest; however, only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.