Software Engineer

The Solutions Development Department at Synspective is responsible for developing models and algorithms which produce actionable insights for customers not specialized in the earth observation business. These algorithms may use multiple sources of data, including our own satellite data. To that end, we develop an analytics platform that enables the production of geoscience insights efficiently and easily.

The execution team is a lean team that embraces a learn fast mentality and prioritizes useful solutions for difficult business problems. The role itself will be flexible in terms of both work, experience, and learning opportunities.

Responsibility

You will be part of an innovative team developing cutting-edge internal solutions that empower our sales and business operations across the organization. Your contributions will directly impact our growth and success.

Details of work

• Design and develop a pipeline to deploy and run geoscience algorithms. Be responsible for all parts of this pipeline which spans all of the web stack

• Develop tools to improve efficiency of geoscience algorithm production from inception to productization. These tools serve both the producers (scientists) and the consumers (sales team)

• Cross-functional collaboration with multiple stakeholders to develop a product.

Selling points of this role

• Play a crucial role in enhancing our business infrastructure, ensuring it scales in line with our ambitious growth trajectory.

• Enjoy the autonomy to influence and decide how to approach and implement new solutions and features.

• Work with a group of driven engineers across multiple disciplines to achieve our goal of a learning world.

• Engage with a variety of talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a rich and inclusive work culture.

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer

• Experience building customer-facing cloud-native systems on one of the major cloud providers using Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience working with git

• Experience in designing and developing microservices

• Experience working with Linux based systems

• Experience in software development for internal use (requirement gathering, designing, programming and maintenance)

• preferred technical skills: rust, python, javascript, golang, react, GCP APIs

• Experience in working in a team loosely following agile methodology

• Ability to communicate in English

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with flask, jupyter notebooks, containerized workloads, developing tooling for VSCode, Python’s poetry and Javascript.

• Experience with Kubeflow or ML training pipelines is a plus

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with Github actions

• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines

• Experience in handling GIS/Map data and services

• Ability to communicate in Japanese