Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• maps, coordinates, geometry, and geospatial information. You will be involved in building the systems that transform information from construction documents into accurate, usable geographic data that can support real-world field operations.
• Design, develop, and maintain production systems while contributing to technical architecture and engineering decisions.
• Build functionality around maps, geographic coordinates, spatial relationships, and geometric data.
• Develop solutions that can extract, process, validate, and transform geometry from unstructured or semi-structured documents.
• Work on functionality involving geographic measurements, distances, routing, asset locations, and other location-based calculations.
• Translate real-world geographic information into reliable data that can be visualized, measured, and used in the field.
• Handle imperfect data sources, including inconsistent formats, incomplete information, and ambiguous inputs.
• Establish approaches that prioritize data accuracy and clearly identify cases where a reliable result cannot be produced.
• Contribute to code reviews, engineering standards, testing, and continuous integration practices.
• Help improve system reliability through monitoring, observability, and safe failure mechanisms.
• Take increasing ownership of technical decisions and architectural areas as the product and engineering team grow.
• transforming information extracted from documents into accurate real-world coordinates and usable geometry.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of taking ownership of technical decisions and production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with

Preferred

• Experience or education related to
• civil engineering, surveying, construction, asphalt, or estimating
• Familiarity with construction concepts such as
• plans, alignments, stationing, quantities, and pay items
• Experience working with
• routing, logistics, hauling, or distance calculations
• Exposure to
• DOT bid packages or construction documentation
• Familiarity with construction estimating platforms such as
• Bluebeam, B2W, HeavyBid, or HardDollar
• Experience with
• 3D geospatial information, including terrain models, surface models, point clouds, or cut-and-fill calculations.
• Experience with technologies such as
• Turf.js, proj4js, PostGIS, or similar spatial libraries and databases.

TypeScript and Node.js

Previous experience developing software involving

GIS, mapping, coordinates, geometry, or other geospatial data

• Practical knowledge of one or more areas such as
• GeoJSON, KML, GIS platforms, routing, mapping systems, fleet tracking, logistics, agriculture, drones, or location-based applications
• Experience processing data that may be incomplete, inconsistent, noisy, or difficult to interpret.
• Strong attention to accuracy, data integrity, and system correctness, particularly when software outputs impact real-world decisions.
• Ability to reason about edge cases and design systems that behave safely when information is insufficient or uncertain.
• Strong written and spoken

English communication skills

Comfortable working independently in a remote and distributed engineering environment.

What You'll Own

As you grow into the role, you will take ownership of important areas of the platform, including:

Geospatial capabilities

how the product represents, processes, measures, and exports geographic information.

Distance and routing functionality

supporting location-based calculations and hauling-related use cases.

Core engineering

production code, technical design, architecture, and key engineering decisions.

Reliability and quality

code reviews, testing, observability, monitoring, and engineering standards.

Data correctness

ensuring the platform can distinguish between reliable results and situations where available information is insufficient.

About RYZ Labs

RYZ Labs is a startup studio founded in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs with extensive experience across technology and consumer businesses. The company brings together talented professionals across the US and Latin America to build and scale technology companies.

Our teams are remote and distributed across the US and Latam, working with modern technologies to develop scalable, resilient products across different industries.

At RYZ Labs, you'll have the opportunity to work with a high degree of autonomy, take ownership of meaningful projects, and collaborate with experienced professionals. You'll be exposed to challenging technical problems while continuing to develop your skills in a fast-moving startup environment.