Senior Staff Geospatial Software Engineer

Senior Staff Geospatial Software Engineer

Build planet-scale geospatial data platforms that accelerate sustainable agriculture.

At Bayer Crop Science our mission is to develop agriculture solutions for a sustainable future that help meet the challenges of feeding a global population projected to grow to over 9.6 billion by 2050. This includes research and development of innovative modern agriculture solutions based on biotechnology and plant breeding, developing science based products including seeds and crop protection products, and modern analytics that help identify the best crop system for each acre.

To accomplish this mission we are capturing petabytes of data in our operational systems including everything from genome sequencing data, to manufacturing, supply chain and finance systems. This includes a tremendous volume of scientific data from field trials that requires complex analysis in order to extract meaningful information, and our mission is to understand that data and create software that will help make decisions at scales that has never been possible before.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Play a key senior role on a geospatial data engineering team, building distributed analytics capabilities and enabling enterprise-wide access to scientific and operational datasets.

• Apply strong software craftsmanship with your knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and geospatial data models

• Partner with other top-level talent in data engineering, software development, and data science to tackle complex, novel problems and deliver solutions with real-world impact on global food systems.

• Mentor and guide other data engineers in your areas of expertise with a focus on geographic information science and systems.

• Evaluate, implement, and advocate Foss4G technologies, finding the best fit for each use case and integrating them into production-ready solutions.

• Lead technical initiatives end-to-end, communicate your technical vision and strategy to the larger organization.

• Drive impact across enterprise projects spanning multiple areas of the business. Strength of ideas outweighs position in the organization

Who you are:

• 7+ experience as a software engineer

• Proven experience in leading, mentoring and managing software development teams

• A track record of shipping and maintaining multiple major product releases written in Go or Python

• Extensive experience with observability practices for running and deploying software, including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring production systems to diagnose issues and ensure reliability

• Experience with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker

• Familiarity with developing in, deploying to, and working with Kubernetes cluster infrastructure

• Expert understanding of software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)

• Strong proficiency in software design and architecture

• Extensive experience with version control systems like Git

• Ability to write and oversee the development of clean, maintainable, and efficient code
  Proficiency with integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio, IntelliJ Idea or Eclipse

• Strong knowledge of software development tools and practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)

• Advanced understanding of database management and SQL

• Extensive experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design

• In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred

• Experience with geoarrow, geoparquet, and geopackage data formats

• Experience with emerging geospatial database management systems such as DuckDB Spatial and Sedona DB

• Experience working with distributed geospatial data warehousing (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake) and compute (e.g. Spark, Sedona)

• Experience implementing h3 geospatial indexing

• Contributions to or implementation of these OSGEO projects: GDAL/OGR, GeoServer, GeoTools, PostGIS, PROJ, QGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet

What do We offer: 

• A flexible, remote-hybrid work model

• Great workplace in a new modern office in Warsaw

• Career development, 360° Feedback & Mentoring programme

• Wide access to professional development tools, trainings, & conferences

• Company Bonus & Reward Structure

• VIP Medical Care Package (including Dental & Mental health)

• Holiday allowance (“Wczasy pod gruszą”)

• Life & Travel Insurance

• Pension plan

• Co-financed sport card - FitProfit

• Meals Subsidy in Office

• Budget for Home Office Setup & Maintenance

• Access to Company Game Room equipped with table tennis, soccer table, Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles setup with premium game passes, and massage chairs

• Tailored-made support in relocation to Warsaw when needed

• Please send your CV in English