Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

IQGeo is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to enhance our Developer Experience and Developer Tools for our Web and Mobile Software engineering efforts, supporting both domestic and international enterprise customers. This role joins a dynamic team that enjoys working with complex applications and products that utilize software, GIS, engineering, and problem-solving skills. Our flexible scheduling and outstanding benefits support success in a highly creative, innovative, and energetic company.

About Us

Achieving universal broadband equity and meeting net zero carbon emissions are two of the biggest social and environmental challenges that the IQGeo team is tackling. To achieve this, more than 500 innovative telecommunications and utility companies around the world are “building better networks” using our award-winning geospatial software to deploy the fiber optic and distributed energy networks of the future. We play a vital role in helping utilities plan, design, construct and maintain the complex network assets essential to the success of our businesses and well-being of our communities. As a carbon neutral software company, we invite creative and talented people to join us in our mission to transform communication and utility networks for the long-term sustainability of our shared planet. Learn more about our customer stories.

Our Engineering teams are in Cambridge (UK), Denver (USA), Salt Lake City (USA), and Ghent (Belgium) and are responsible for designing and developing our geospatial products which are available both as cloud services and for on-premises deployment. You will be helping to develop the next generation of innovative geospatial products that support mission-critical operations for our global customer base.

Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As an integral part of the Geospatial engineering team, the successful candidate will be enhancing the developer experience and tools to meet the growing list of requirements for the platform and application products and new industry vertical applications. Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop, and maintain tools, APIs, and frameworks that streamline the development process.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify and address pain points in the developer workflow.
• Implement automated testing solutions to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Configuration management, management of builds, and creation of installers
• Technical documentation of software design, developer tools, and APIs
• Provide guidance and mentorship to software engineers on best practices and tool usage.
  
  

Essential

Required Skills & Experience

You Must Have All Of The Following

• Significant experience building server-side applications in Python
• Significant experience building client-side applications in JavaScript
• Significant experience working with Docker containers
• Significant experience with SQL and RDBMS technology (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, or similar)
• Significant experience integrating front-end and back-end components
• Experience creating and running automated tests
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to present technical concepts to Architects and Developers
• Experience guiding and mentoring software engineers
• Experience using Git or other distributed version control systems
• UK citizenship or permanent residency required
• Fluent written and spoken English.
  
  

Desirable

Ideally, You’ll Have Some Of The Following

• Experience using containers for development environments.
• Experience with Node.js design and development
• Experience with React in JavaScript
• Experience with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) or web mapping
• Enterprise Integration especially web services
• Mobile application development (iOS, Android, Windows)
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience with Linux system architecture/administration and supporting network architecture
• Experience working in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Knowledge of or experience with: OpenLayers, PostGIS, Pyramid, Shapely, Turf, and SQLAlchemy.
  
  

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

What’s In it For You

• 25 days of paid holiday, with the opportunity to purchase further days up to a total of 30.
• Charity/Volunteering day each year.
• IQGeo SHINE program
• Company-matched pension contributions of up to 6% base salary.
• Private medical insurance.
• Health cash plan.
• Company life assurance (4x gross salary).
• Incapacity benefit.
• Enhanced maternity leave policy.
• EV company car scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Cycle scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Give as you earn charity scheme.
• Mentor program.
  
  

Flexible Working

We support hybrid and flexible working arrangements for all employees. We understand that life for many people involves school runs, care giving, or exercising!

Work Permits & Visas

You must already have the right to work permanently in United Kingdom.

IQGeo is not able to sponsor work permits.

About IQGeo

IQGeo is based in Cambridge, UK with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Malaysia, and Japan. We are supported by a global network of highly skilled partners. Originally founded as Ubisense Ltd in 2002, the IQGeo brand was launched in January 2019 after the company was split into two separate businesses. Led by a team of geospatial technology pioneers, the IQGeo Platform software was first launched in 2010 and has an impressive pedigree in the telco, communications, and utility industries. In 2020, IQGeo acquired OSPInsight, a provider of fiber network management software, and in 2022 IQGeo acquired Comsof, a world leader in automated network design, headquartered in Belgium.

Today, IQGeo is the leader in introducing modern web and mobile geospatial applications into the communications and utility industries.