Urban Mapping seeks an experienced manager who has a proven track record in complex web-based software development. You must be passionate about your work, be prepared to adapt quickly, wear multiple hats and deal with a sometimes pedantic/mercurial CEO. The opportunity is enormous and the challenges are many, but who isn’t up for hard work, having fun, learning and making money along the way?
You will mentor bright engineers to further Mapfluence, Urban Mapping’s cloud-based web mapping and analytics platform. You will be both tactician and strategist, growing the engineering team and planning platform architecture. Your 10+ years experience in software development arm you with the instinct to make the right decisions when writing code and managing others.
It’s about fit—do you have the creative/entrepreneurial drive, commitment to be unconventional and want to play a pivotal role in building a sustainable business? Urban Mapping is profitable and we’ve carved a niche over the past five years in all things geo-spatial, but now it’s time to blow that niche out of the water. We’re well-versed in SaaS business models, enterprise markets, Big Data, curation and more, long before these terms were sexy. Think a “data marketplace” is the next big thing? We don’t! Here’s our CEO boiling it down in under four minutes. Interested building a Shortest Path Tree implementation to generate isochrones using public transportation and the road network? Want to know what we think about the death of delivery by CD-ROM? That will take a little more than six minutes.
We’re looking for a visionary who knows that getting the job done takes focus, delight and honest communication. Those who have jumped job to job enough to arouse suspicion won’t be a great fit. Somebody who has been waiting for the right opportunity will like the idea of the ‘startup that’s started up,’ ie, lower risk.
Some more about your background:
* A track record of leadership and success
* Several years experience managing an engineering team of at least 5 people
* Several years experience leading the team for a high-availability website
* Experience with agile release cycles
* Experience in a start-up environment
* Experience conducting design/code reviews, performance tuning and low level debugging
Your skills should include:
* Demonstrated understanding of strategies for high availability web sites including caching/clustering techniques
* Experience working with web APIs and Software as a Service (SaaS)
* Broad experience with web application frameworks
* Complete familiarity with n-tiered web, clustered architectures.
* Deep database experience, preferably some with Postgres
* Several years of server-side OOP software development, preferable with Python, Java, or C++
* Comfortable working in Linux
* Well versed in HTML, CSS, Javascript
This position pays a competitive base salary + benefits, including paid vacation, health insurance, stock options, training/education, centrally located in San Francisco’s Financial District, regular company outings, food & fun, etc… Local candidates preferred and we’re ready to hire as soon as you are able to interview!
The best way to learn about this position and to catch our interest is for you to look at what we’ve done and offer a critique—if you are going to challenge us on the job, start doing so now: visit our Developer Portal and let us know what you think. If this role speaks to you, please get in touch with us at talent@urbanmapping.com with “Sr Eng Mgr” in the subject line. Include a note of interest, your resume and links/background to anything you think is relevant. Generic cover letters aren’t a good use of time, but checking references and having distinct points of view are.
Urban Mapping, Inc offers hosted mapping and integrated data services. We run the business off of operations with only seed financing, love having real customers like Yahoo!, Microsoft and Tableau Software, do not have Xbox or Guitar Hero and are ‘forced’ to remain profitable. We don’t expect you to work 24×7, but we want you to be committed. For more information, please visit www.urbanmapping.com.
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