American Forests is looking for a mid-level Full Stack Engineer to join their GIS & Data Science team to build impactful tools focused on reforestation and equitable access to trees and the benefits they provide.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, building production applications
- 2+ years of experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, and React (similar component-based frameworks considered)
- Proficiency implementing APIs using RPC, REST or similar
- Experience with containerization and deploying backend services directly to a cloud provider or using a third-party PaaS provider (we use AWS, Flightcontrol).
- Familiarity with relational databases, ORMs, and schema design (we use PostgreSQL and Prisma)
- Proficiency with Git, build tools, and testing. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Linux/Unix command line tools for deployment, debugging and system management
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test individual web services, APIs, and application components
- Build user interfaces using React, Mapbox, and other open source libraries
- Contribute to lightweight data processing workflows for ETL operations and event-driven transformations
- Contribute to specifications and architectural decisions
- Help address scaling, performance, and usability challenges through established best practices and thoughtful problem-solving
- Write maintainable, reusable code with comprehensive pull requests, tests, and documentation
- Work with cloud-optimized data formats including Parquet, FlatGeobuf, and PMTiles
Other
- Experience working with remote teams
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- An interest in using other languages when projects require it (e.g. Python)
- Experience with geospatial tools and libraries.
- Experience working on data pipelines that ingest, process or publish data at larger scale (tens to hundreds of GB).
