Software Engineer

Unacast is a global location intelligence and insights company transforming our understanding of human activity in the physical world. Unacast extracts valuable information from location data, delivering trustworthy, reliable, and privacy-friendly location intelligence. Companies across industries, at every stage of growth, rely on Unacast’s actionable human mobility insights to make more informed decisions that better align with the world around them.

We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Core Platform Team!  

The Software Developer will work within our Core Platform development team, assisting in the development of batch process and business logic for our core platform, which processes tens of billions of location signal data points each day, including simple to complex algorithm development. 

Responsibilities:

• Create innovative solutions by writing high quality code that delivers the functionality required and adheres to best practices in development and testing.
• Create readable code which is easy to maintain and communicate with the team and stakeholders on the progress of the work.
• Efficiently and flexibly writing Snowflake SQL queries that can be incorporated into data pipelines, to solve newly arising challenges
• Optimizing data flows, storage and architectures to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.
• Create and maintain design documents both for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You build it, you run it, the teams are highly empowered which means that you will own the products from inception to a running system in production.

Capabilities:

• You are both a team player and a self-starter. You are comfortable working independently with only basic guidance, as well as work well within the larger team.
• You have demonstrated experience translating business problems into technology solutions, and deploying the right tool for the job including Scala, Java, third party web services, scripting languages (e.g. Python, R) and third party tool sets.
• You are familiar with tools like Postman or cURL to test and interact with APIs, including handling different HTTP methods, managing headers and parameters, and analyzing responses.
• You are capable of taking a basic description of what is needed, analyzing it and asking the right questions to generate a detailed specification of the software requirements.
• You can demonstrate to us that you have developed multiple applications from requirements elaboration to delivery to production.
• You have the ability to debug and analyze problems effectively, identifying root causes and providing solutions in a timely manner.
• You must have good organization skills and great communication & documentation skills.

Experience:

• At least 4 years’ experience in software development in Java and/or Scala.
• You can demonstrate to us that you have good database skills both creating new databases, modifying existing databases and manipulating data within those databases.
• You will be experienced in either SQL or NoSQL databases and enjoy working with both.
• You have experience processing data efficiently in JSON and/or XML formats.

• Experience with MySQL, AWS, Spark, Snowflake, DynamoDB, CartoDB or other similar tools.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, including the software deployment and testing processes.

... and it is a positive if`

• You have experience working with geospatial data.
• You are team and customer service oriented, innovative, open-minded to the solution set, and driven to deliver solutions that meet or exceed requirements. 
• Experience with data analytics and data visualization.
• You believe that simple approaches are better than complex, whenever possible.

What we expect of you 

• Demonstrate a proactive and entrepreneurial mindset
• Contribute to a positive and enjoyable work environment
• We are a startup, so things change fast, you need to be agile and proactive on this journey
• Participate in the on-call rotation
• Personal characteristics we value include: high integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, innovative thinking, team player, passion for technology, adaptability, high energy and attention to detail.

Other Info

This a remote position that may require occasional travel.  Preference for candidates on EST or CST time zones who reside in the following states:   CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NY, NC, PA, SC, TX, VA, WV

We offer competitive salaries and benefits and unlimited PTO. The typical base salary range for this role is $110,000 to $130,000. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, job level, internal equity and budget. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience and geographic location.

Unacast is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Unacast is committed to making the job application process accessible to everyone. If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible), we will provide a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process. To request an accommodation in connection with the application or recruiting process, please contact Human Resources at 703-840-8850. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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