Team Lead Manager, Geospatial Software Engineering
Engineering | New York, NY | Full Time
About Us:
Gro Intelligence is tackling two of the biggest problems facing the world today: food security and climate change. We understand and quantify the complex interplay between food, weather, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions in a world upended by climate change, a growing population, and more. The team at Gro has built a platform that allows businesses, non-profits, and governments to better plan for and adapt to these changes. With offices in both Nairobi and New York, Gro has the financial backing of prominent investors such as TPG Growth, Intel Capital, Data Collective, and GGV. Gro is a diverse, intellectually curious team of technologists, scientists, and business professionals united by a shared commitment to build AI that addresses agriculture, food, and our climate on the most fundamental level.
What you’ll do:
Leading and managing a team of software engineers with a diverse set of expertise
Lead system design for the team based on product requirements
Interface and collaborate with Infrastructure, API teams
Hands on design and implementation
Contribute to system-wide engineering improvements
Cutting edge research on systems and algorithms
Qualifications:
10+ years of experience as a team leader
Very proficient in Python, and Java/C/C++/Go
Experience with complex data pipelines
Experience with data APIs
Experience working on Geo product such as Google Earth Engine, MapBox, GeoMesa, OpenStreetMap, Omnisci
Experience with geospatial libraries, formats and APIs (GDAL, geoJSON, s2)
Extensive experience working with geospatial raster data, especially global satellite imagery
Streaming big data storage, query and analysis systems (e.g. Hadoop, Spark)
Very strong fundamentals in computer science
Who You Are:
The ideal candidate will have built and deployed software services at scale
Know what it takes to ship high quality code
A builder of productive and collaborative teams
Excellent communicator
A great team player –you have a point of view, and know how to humbly raise it
Bonus Points:
Image processing
Experience with agricultural, climate and weather data