Frontend Software Engineer

Role Description

Build intuitive and elegant user experiences to empower fellow KoBolders with backgrounds in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and data science.

• Own and improve KoBold’s existing web apps that manage data upload, discovery, search, and visualization.
• Collaborate with scientists to architect new tools to support complex, interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, plotting, and data labeling.
• Champion frontend best practices. Modernize our stack to standardize our UIs, prototype faster, and deploy useful apps for our geologists and data scientists. Mentor junior developers.
• Setup systems to automate the testing of our UIs.

Qualifications

• Experience in architecting, developing, and maintaining frontend applications that provide a rich user experience.
• Experience in writing production-quality code that is correct, performant, scalable, and extensible.
• Skilled with data visualization libraries (D3, Leaflet, etc).
• Experience with modern JavaScript tools (node.js, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc), modern deployment and cloud technologies, Python web frameworks (Django, Panel, Flask, etc), and classic frontend development (HTML, CSS, etc).

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences.
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms, such as Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with frontend automated-testing systems (Cypress, Selenium, etc).

Additional Qualities

• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Will be open to working directly with geologists in the field.
• Excited to work on a wide range of problems in a dynamic work environment, to take on a wide range of responsibilities, and to learn new tech and science.
• Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company.
• A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company.

Requirements

This position is Full-time.

The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $160,000 - $240,000.

Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.