Job opening - Urban Mapping, Inc.: Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco
URL: www.urbanmapping.com

Urban Mapping is looking for brilliant and motivated software engineers to join the core team of developers for Mapfluence, our hosted mapping and analytics platform. You will help us define and build the next generation of our world-class RESTful web services and APIs for geovisualization.

On the server side, we work primarily in Python, but the developers we are looking for are object-oriented wizards and can adapt to new languages quickly. So if you’re a rock star in Python, Java, C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel, or some other suitably object oriented language, then we want to hear from you.

We work in small, nimble teams and like to go from idea to production in less than two months. This means plenty of opportunity to conceptualize, develop and have your code used by a broad base of users, ensuring regular feedback.

! REQUIRED SKILLS

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent education plus work experience
• 5+ years relevant work experience
• Expert backend object-oriented programmer (e.g. Python, Java, C++)
• Experience developing RESTful web services
• A working knowledge of Agile Development practices
• Great team player
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS

Experience developing one or more of the following is a bonus:

• High-availability, high-traffic web services
• High performance geo-databases
• Web-based mapping applications
• Big data

Urban Mapping, Inc (UMI) provides geospatial web and data services to simplify the development and deployment of online mapping and data visualization applications. UMI’s Mapfluence service offers a solid technical infras! tructure for mapping, custom base maps and the industry’s mo! st comprehensive on-demand data catalog. Since 2006, leading interactive publishers like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft and leading enterprises like CoStar Group, Tableau Software and CoreLogic have utilized Urban Mapping’s geospatial data and technology. For more information, please visit www.urbanmapping.com.

This position pays a competitive base salary + benefits, including paid vacation, health insurance, stock options, training/education, centrally located in San Francisco’s Financial District, regular company outings, food & fun, etc…

Relocation assistance is available, as is sponsorship for work authorization (H-1B or TN NAFTA).

To apply: Please send your resume along with a note of introduction to talent@urbanmapping.com and indicate ‘SOFTWARE ENGINEER’ in the subject line.

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