GIS Software Engineer

Job Title: Staff Software Development Engineer

Maxar is looking for an enthusiastic Staff Software Development Engineer to join its MGP integrations team, with a passion for solving complex problems with customer driven objectives and is willing to learn and develop the tools and technologies related to GIS applications.

Our talented MGP integrations team at Maxar consists of full stack developers, Enterprise Architects and database experts who work closely together to build plugins, dashboards, tools and workflows for our Geospatial Products and Production systems supporting our internal and external stakeholders.

Location: Westminster, CO or Herndon VA

Life with Us

Your Project: This role would require the team member to be a quick learner and a senior contributor who would develop full stack solutions to enable and automate workflows within client-side software and also web based

applications. You will contribute your expertise to develop front-end UI and also back-end architecture necessary to meet customer requirements. You will be responsible for gathering customer requirements, driving toward deadlines, collaborating with the eGIS DBA to build the add-ins for GIS applications. You would be occasionally tasked with upgrading the GIS environment and infrastructure maintenance and deployments. You will assist with training, documentation, and presentations related to custom solutions.

This position is hybrid with several days a week on-site with your colleagues in Westminster, CO or Herndon, VA

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):

• Develop new ESRI/ QGIS related add-ins using the SDK, webapps and tools to support internal and external stake holders.

• Adapt mission requirements to develop new tools, capabilities, or enhance/upgrade existing ones.

• Incorporate customer feedback into software products.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure quality.

• Write and optimize ETLs in both Linux and Windows environments using scripting languages: Python and other ancillary languages with associated libraries.

• Expand the company’s geospatial capabilities with open-source and cloud native services and software and integrate with other third party applications.

• Develop tools or workflows to assist other production teams like Vivid, Tasking, Collection Planning and other Constellation Management teams.

• Collaborate with other developers throughout the development process, both those on your immediate team and those on other teams that build supporting software.

• Evolve your language skills by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools and technologies.

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience. Desired degree’s include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience

• 3-5 years of strong coding experience in Python, C#

• GIS experience and knowledge of raster & imagery

• Experience with GIS technology in an operational environment via ESRI ArcPro, ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap and Catalog), or QGIS.

• Experience with AWS devops and automation tools (Docker, Kubernetes ) is required

• Minimum 2 Years experience working in a cloud-based environment 

• Technical Skills:  Proficient in SQL, database design, and data modeling. Experience with AWS CLI, SDKs

• Familiarity with writing complex queries using database languages.

• Must be able to quickly shift priorities due to business and/or customer requests.

• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed, collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

• Desired degree’s include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Science,

• Information Systems, Software Engineering, Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry or a related field

• Knowledge of ArcGIS Enterprise; including ArcPro, ArcServer, and Portal

• Devops experience in AWS Cloud Services: Airflow, Lambdas, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Kubernet