Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

This role has a particular focus on geospatial and political data, so experience in any of the following is a strong plus:

Hands-on experience with geospatial data - shapefiles, GeoJSON, projections/coordinate systems, and spatial joins.

Experience with geospatial libraries and tooling (PostGIS, GeoPandas, Shapely, GDAL/OGR, Fiona, etc.).

Familiarity with political geography: precincts, city council and county districts, and state/federal legislative districts.

Understanding of how census geographies differ from political boundaries, and the challenges of mapping between them.

Awareness of the current redistricting landscape and how court-ordered and legislative map changes affect downstream data.

Understanding of U.S. elections administration and/or campaign operations.

Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, or data-related tasks.

Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (used within and without Rails).

Knowledge of building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, including performing upgrades, using GraphQL-Ruby, Turbo/Stimulus, Rspec, etc.

Understanding of API design, development, and usage, especially GraphQL APIs.

Experience contributing to automated test suites and ensuring robust coverage.

Expertise in PostgreSQL (with PostGIS for geospatial data).

Experience working with cloud data warehouses, particularly BigQuery.

Knowledge of building scalable data pipelines with dbt.

Knowledge of scaling and high-availability techniques.

Experience maintaining infrastructure hosted on AWS or GCP.

Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, especially GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions.

Familiarity with Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code.