Front-end Developer

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Job Description

Our team consists of NASA award-winning developers, Earth observation scientists, big data specialists, and unicorn Startup veterans from places like Facebook, IBM, and Berkeley and who come from five of the seven continents. Our leadership team includes the Chair of Canada’s first Space Accelerator for start-ups, an Earth observation veteran who has led multiple companies through IPOs, a planetary robotics graduate from the International Space University, and a petabyte-scale data leader with patents in location AI and contextual analytics. We are TechStars ‘16 NYC and Google for Entrepreneurs alumni. We have a unique blend of space/satellite authorities and consumer application veterans, and we are just getting started!

OUR CULTURE

Culture is the personality of a company. At SkyWatch, our culture is incredibly important to us, and we practice it every day. As a company, we value innovation, dependability, and accessibility. In our product, we value simplicity, affordability, and informability.

In Engineering, we value our team’s happiness over unrealistic product planning (People First), flexibility over a rigorous top-down process (Freedom & Autonomy), and improving our overall system instead of dwelling on unintended mistakes or bugs (Just Culture).

Our mission and values are on the walls of our office. We don’t just talk the talk; we walk the walk.

OUR PRODUCT

Every day, hundreds of trillions of pixels of our planet are captured from space. With new applications for this data such as precision farming, construction planning, disaster relief operations, and retail revenue prediction (to name a few), the demand for satellite imagery is growing. However, the current process for obtaining satellite imagery is very time-consuming and tedious.

While the number of sensors observing our planet is growing exponentially, we are seeing each of these instruments creating their own unique dataset. Getting access to many of these catalogs is expensive and time-consuming. And once access is achieved, is it difficult to integrate data from multiple sources into one system. We all know the most impactful analytics happen when large volumes of data are normalized and can be easily incorporated into powerful models.

Using our team's experience in building NASA-award-winning software, we are building the SkyWatch API, a simple way to discover and access the world’s remote sensing data. We are making it easy for organizations and developers to monitor the progress of crops, predict the markets, track ships and airplanes, measure global warming, or create other game-changing applications. We do the data work behind the scenes so developers are free to build the apps that change the world. Sound exciting? You’re right — it is.

After securing our $10M CAD Series-A round in January 2020, and a $21M CAD Series-B in June of 2021, SkyWatch is on the pathway to scale.

Reporting to our Team Lead, Front-end Engineering, you will be responsible for playing a key role in designing and developing the front end of the SkyWatch platform (TerraStream).

As a Front-end Developer at Skywatch, you will:

• Test, document, and deliver code with cross browser compatibility and accessibility
• Manage and build deployment processes
• Provide guidance and leadership to junior front-end developers including co-op students

About You:

• You have 3-4 years of experience in a front-end development capacity
• You love collaboration and have a proven track record of working within cross-functional teams
• Your knowledge of accessibility practices and coding is one of your many strengths

Technical Arsenal:

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript
• An eye for detail when implementing designs
• Familiar with AWS services (S3, CloudFront, etc.) and GitHub Actions
• Unit testing experience
• Bonus points if you have Angular or GIS experience

What Will Excite Us:

• You enjoy working in a data-driven environment
• You have high energy and high urgency mentality
• You have prior experience in a start-up, especially with a software product company
• You have industry knowledge of satellite imagery and/or APIs (BONUS)
• Space excites you – A LOT!
• SkyWatch is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual needs in keeping with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require any accommodation in order to participate in our hiring process, please contact us to make your needs known in advance.