What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Full Stack Software Engineer position at Knowmadics?
Candidates should live within driving distance of the following areas: Wichita, KS; Lawton, OK; or Round Rock, TX.
Job Purpose/Summary
Work with our team of engineers, scientists and human factors professionals to develop visualization and data capabilities for applications in cybersecurity, space, and telecommunications. This senior role will involve hands-on work developing user interfaces and backend data storage and processing capabilities for AI applications in space and cybersecurity applications. Development will include React front end development, geospatial data handling and visualization, handling data inputs/outputs of machine learning models, and pub/sub streaming applications with protobuf and json. The role may also involve managing one or two junior full stack developers. We are a small, independent team within a small to medium-sized company, with most work happening autonomously within the team.
Duties and Responsibilities
Minimum:
Employees may be called upon to participate in in-person meetings, trainings, or company functions at Knowmadics offices or other designated locations. Travel in support of business operations may also be required, and employees are expected to comply with these obligations as part of their position.
Physical requirements
n/a
Direct reports
0, 1 or 2 junior full stack developers
Job Purpose/Summary
Work with our team of engineers, scientists and human factors professionals to develop visualization and data capabilities for applications in cybersecurity, space, and telecommunications. This senior role will involve hands-on work developing user interfaces and backend data storage and processing capabilities for AI applications in space and cybersecurity applications. Development will include React front end development, geospatial data handling and visualization, handling data inputs/outputs of machine learning models, and pub/sub streaming applications with protobuf and json. The role may also involve managing one or two junior full stack developers. We are a small, independent team within a small to medium-sized company, with most work happening autonomously within the team.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop interactive geospatial data visualizations (Cesium/Resium, React, ArcGIS).
- Develop frontend capabilities to receive data from users, perform basic summary and visualization, and allow basic editing of data. This may include developing frontend plugin capabilities within an existing tool or framework such as Grafana or OpenC2.
- Develop backend capabilities (e.g., API routes, pub/sub subscribers, database/blob storage integrations) to handle, process and store streaming and request-based data
- Write well-tested code, including CI/CD-driven unit and integration testing.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Support requirement definition and documentations.
- Support development of CI/CD infrastructure.
- Provide mentorship to junior developers
- Occasionally capture screenshots and recordings of developed capabilities for demonstration.
- Occasionally work with design and human factors coworkers to mock data visualization capabilities using a variety of tools (e.g., Grafana, Figma) using real data, and support translating these mocks into code/applications.
- Other duties as necessary
Minimum:
- Candidates should live within driving distance of the following areas: Wichita, KS; Lawton, OK; or Round Rock, TX.
- Formal education in computer science or quantitative field, or mix of education and relevant experience
- 2 years’ experience working with geospatial data visualization (e.g., ArcGIS, Google Maps integrations, Cesium, d3.js mapping, Leaflet)
- 6 years’ experience with modern frameworks for front end development (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) and packaging (e.g., Vite, webpack)
- 5 years’ experience with Postgres or other relational databases
- Real-world experience with pub/sub data streaming such as Kafka, or queue-based systems such as SQS.
- Experience mentoring junior full stack engineers
- Eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance – U.S. Citizenship required
- Experience with Grafana, OpenC2, or another observability or C2 tool.
- Experience managing 1-3 direct reports, including performance management, coaching, and development.
- Experience working with data scientists or other non-engineer technical collaborators (e.g., physics, biology)
- Experience with geospatial data storage (flat files including KML and , database extensions for geospatial data), tileservers (e.g., geoTIFF, OGC 3D Tiles)
- Experience with 3D data visualization (in a game engine like Unity, Unreal, or in a web framework such as Three.js, cesium)
- Experience with cybersecurity, telecommunications, hardware prototyping, or space operations.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a focus on collaboration and conflict resolution.
- Experience in delegating tasks, setting priorities, and managing workloads effectively.
Employees may be called upon to participate in in-person meetings, trainings, or company functions at Knowmadics offices or other designated locations. Travel in support of business operations may also be required, and employees are expected to comply with these obligations as part of their position.
Physical requirements
n/a
Direct reports
0, 1 or 2 junior full stack developers