Senior Frontend Engineer (Geospatial)

Location: Hybrid in Arlington, Virginia; candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 per year, plus potential performance bonuses and stock options.

Company

hirify.global is an AI and optimization company developing advanced software systems for complex operational environments, including defense and national security missions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain sophisticated web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Build interactive geospatial interfaces using mapping and visualization libraries.
• Develop responsive, high-performance interfaces for complex, data-intensive applications.
• Build multi-user applications with shared state, real-time updates, and concurrent interactions.
• Integrate geospatial data, REST APIs, and real-time data streams into frontend applications.
• Develop reusable UI components, optimize rendering and usability, and contribute to frontend architecture, testing, and code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Professional experience developing interactive geospatial or mapping applications.
• Hands-on experience with deck.gl, MapLibre, Mapbox, MapTiler, or comparable web mapping and visualization technologies.
• Understanding of geospatial data formats, coordinate systems, map layers, and rendering techniques.
• Experience building multi-user, complex, data-intensive, or real-time web applications, including shared state, synchronization, and concurrent interactions.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance optimization, component design, and state management.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and Server-Sent Events with backend services.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively; must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Nice to have

• Geospatial development experience in military, defense, intelligence, or national security environments.
• Military symbology standards such as MIL-STD-2525 or APP-6.
• Advanced deck.gl, WebGL, GPU-accelerated, or 3D geospatial visualization experience.
• Real-time visualization with WebSockets or similar streaming technologies, and collaborative interfaces with synchronization, conflict handling, and multi-client consistency.
• Large-scale geospatial datasets, vector tiles, raster data, reusable UI component libraries, or design systems.
• Backend development with Rust; PostgreSQL and backend API development.
• AWS, Azure, Docker, or cloud-native applications.
• User interfaces for AI/ML, analytics, or optimization systems; active or previous U.S. government security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful technical ownership and influence over frontend architecture and design decisions.
• Hands-on work on complex geospatial and multi-user applications supporting defense and national security missions.
• Collaborative engineering environment focused on technical excellence and ownership.
• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage, plus performance bonuses and stock options for eligible employees.
• Opportunities for professional growth.