Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vibrant Planet is a leader in fire science and technology, focused on reducing wildfire risks through innovative solutions. They are seeking an Application Engineer to develop and enhance their wildfire resilience and utilities platforms, collaborating with various teams to create user-friendly decision support tools for land management and community protection.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack features across our Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, JavaScript, and Postgres stack, spanning both our core wildfire resilience platform and our utilities applications
- Work with large geospatial datasets — raster, vector, and tiled data — to surface forest planning, scenario building, and treatment outcome insights to end users
- Partner with Product and Design to scope, refine, and deliver user-facing workflows for land managers, foresters, and partner organizations
- Own features end-to-end, from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on user feedback
- Contribute to platform reliability through code review, automated testing, observability, and on-call participation in our Sev process
- Collaborate with Environmental Analysis and Infrastructure teams to integrate geospatial models (Pyrologix, ForSys/Patchmax, canopy height) into the application experience
- Improve developer experience and engineering velocity through tooling, refactoring, and documentation
- Mentor and pair with other engineers, and participate in technical interviews as the team grows
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications
- Proficiency in Elixir, including OTP
- Proficiency with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations
- Demonstrated ability to ship features end-to-end in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to scope ambiguous problems with PMs, designers, and domain experts
- Comfort working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Experience with Phoenix/LiveView
- Experience building geospatial or map-based applications, including working with interactive maps and spatial UI patterns
- Experience working with geospatial data (PostGIS, GDAL, GeoJSON, vector tiles, Mapbox/MapLibre, tippecanoe)
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and modern CI/CD workflows
- Background in climate tech, environmental science, GIS, forestry, or another mission-driven domain
- Prior work at an early- to mid-stage startup
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Company equity
- Cell phone stipend (per pay period)
- Home office setup allowance (one-time)
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