Software Engineer (Geospatial)

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia; hybrid work with three days per week from the Ljubljana office

Salary: €45,600–€57,000 gross per year

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates a large constellation of imaging satellites and provides cloud-based imagery and geospatial data products.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and maintain performant distributed services and highly available APIs for imagery access and geospatial analysis.
• Develop production systems using Go, Java, and/or Python with a strong focus on customer experience.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Write maintainable, observable, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Operate services using SRE practices, including performance measurement, load testing, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and incident response.
• Participate in a rapid-response on-call rotation for internal and external services.

Requirements

• 4+ years of production software development experience, preferably with Python, Java, and/or Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with GCP or AWS, Docker containers, Kubernetes, Git, large codebases, merge requests, and complex CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores.
• Strong software engineering, problem-solving, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across time zones and contribute to occasional team on-sites.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards, including GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, and STAC.
• Experience with remotely sensed products, associated metadata, and orthorectified products.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed collaboration across Europe and North America with an emphasis on clear asynchronous communication.
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee wellness program and home-office reimbursement.
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement, LinkedIn Learning access, equity, and paid volunteering time off.
• AI tools are used responsibly throughout development, with AI-assisted work held to the same quality standard as manually written work.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
• Select interviews may be recorded and transcribed with candidate consent; candidates may opt out.
• AI tools are prohibited during live interviews and assessments unless explicitly permitted.