Software Engineer (Data Production +Access)

Software Engineer (Data Production + Access)

Oakland, New York, Kansas City, or Remote
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Replica is a privacy-centric urban data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. With better data, human-context, and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions.

Our platform models travel behavior over time to show how people across the country live, move, and work. This data is used by planners, scientists, analysts, and policymakers who are working to make our cities more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We contextualize hard choices so that our clients understand the trade-offs surrounding their decisions. Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica enables cities and businesses to make more informed, people-centered decisions.

We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 when we secured series A funding from venture firms such as Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Our series B round was led by Founders Fund in 2021. Today, we are a team of 39 employees both working remotely and from our offices in Oakland, New York, and Kansas City. 

Our data is used to make decisions affecting the physical places where we work, study, and live. These places are complex and deeply human. This responsibility necessitates providing transparency, pursuing equity, and preserving privacy. We are committed to bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion. We value our differences and we encourage all to apply. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Responsibilities
This is a full-stack software engineering role in both front-end and back-end web application development.

• Build product features to access, visualize, and interact with complex urban data; enable customers to understand changes, evaluate solutions, and make predictions for residents.
• Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs which use spatial context to efficiently query and aggregate nationwide geospatial and temporal data
• Collaborate across teams to deeply understand users’ needs, develop and evolve requirements based on user research, set delivery timelines, and implement and deploy urban data applications at nationwide scale.
• Work with Engineering managers and leaders to define the team's technical vision and roadmap.
• Drive engineering best practices to enable a robust production environment and maintain an effective development velocity.
• Achieve uptime requirements and maintain API stability through remote logging and observability tools.
• Participate in on-call rotation; investigate and resolve production problems as they arise.
• Understand the urban data science context to ensure that correct, consistent, and meaningful data is delivered to customers.

The Team

The Data Production and Access team is made up of urbanist-minded engineers and designers who are passionate about evolving our product to address critical economic, equity, and sustainability challenges. The team designs, implements and maintains the building blocks and reusable components that power Replica’s data production and simulation pipelines, and the web application features and other tools to make Replica’s data accessible, discoverable, and meaningful for users.

Team members are empowered to operate autonomously within a culture of iteration, mutual support, and learning. Most of the team is based in the Bay Area and New York, but we work with cross-functional teams in Kansas City, and serve customers across North America.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer.
• Technical: Experience in web application development using a modern JavaScript client framework.

Bonus

• Technical: Experience with our tech stack which includes: React, Typescript, Node, Mapbox, Python, Pandas, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Data background: Experience with big data frameworks and data visualization.
• Urban context: Academic or work experience in Urban Science or related disciplines.

What We Value

• We work in the service of others    
• We understand that talent + diversity +