Senior GIS Engineer

Y Combinator; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Landeed, based in Hyderabad, India, seeks a Senior GIS Engineer to own GIS data pipelines across Indian states. You will work with engineering and product teams to expand, clean, structure, and automate GIS datasets for urban, peri-urban, and rural areas across India.

The role goes beyond map creation to treat GIS as data infrastructure, enabling title diligence, compliance checks, and legal workflows. You will directly impact data quality and scalability.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of relevant GIS experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with ArcGIS, QGIS, Mapbox, or similar tools.
• Experience handling GIS data within databases (PostGIS preferred).
• Strong understanding of spatial data structures and coordinate systems.
• Experience in data cleaning, transformation, and schema standardization.
• Exposure to web scraping and automation tools (Python preferred).
• Strong analytical mindset able to evaluate data quality and usability.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Geomatics, GIS, Computer Science, or related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• GIS Data Engineering & Database Management – structure and manage GIS datasets in databases; ensure data is optimized, queryable, and scalable; integrate GIS layers into product workflows; maintain data integrity across state datasets.
• Data Analysis & Usability Assessment – analyze GIS datasets from business/product perspectives; evaluate completeness and usability; identify inconsistencies and improvements.
• Data Cleaning & Preparation – clean raw GIS datasets; standardize formats, projections, and schemas; prepare data for API/dashboard integration.
• Website Parsing & Data Structuring – understand how government GIS data is structured online; parse portals and repositories; reverse-engineer schemas.
• Scraping & Automation – use scraping frameworks to collect GIS data; build automation pipelines; monitor portal changes and ensure freshness.
• Spatial Analysis – perform spatial queries, build overlays/zoning layers, support internal teams with data requests.

Skills

GIS Data Engineering

Database Management

Data Cleaning

Automation & Scraping

Spatial Analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Geomatics, GIS, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

ArcGIS

QGIS

Mapbox

PostGIS

Job description

Role

Engineering, Data science

Experience

3+ years

Visa

US citizen/visa only

About the role

We are looking for a Senior GIS Engineer who can go beyond map creation and take ownership of GIS data pipelines across multiple Indian states. At Landeed, maps are not visual artifacts they are structured intelligence layers that power title diligence, compliance checks, and legal workflows. This role requires someone who understands GIS from a data, database, and automation perspective not just spatial visualization. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to expand, clean, structure, and automate GIS datasets for urban, peri-urban, and rural areas across India.

Responsibilities

1. GIS Data Engineering & Database Management

• Structure and manage GIS datasets within databases
• Ensure spatial data is optimized, queryable, and scalable
• Work with backend teams to integrate GIS layers into product workflows
• Maintain data integrity across multiple state-level datasets

2. Data Analysis & Usability Assessment

• Analyze GIS datasets from a business and product lens
• Evaluate completeness, accuracy, and usability of data
• Identify missing attributes, inconsistencies, and structural issues
• Recommend improvements for better downstream usage

3. Data Cleaning & Preparation

• Clean raw GIS datasets for production use
• Standardize formats, projections, and attribute schemas
• Ensure data consistency across different states and sources
• Prepare GIS data for integration into APIs and dashboards

4. Website Parsing & Data Structuring

• Understand how government and agency GIS data is structured online
• Parse portals and structured map repositories
• Reverse-engineer data schemas when required

5. Scraping & Automation

• Use scraping frameworks to collect GIS data programmatically
• Build automation pipelines to keep datasets updated
• Monitor changes in government portals and ensure dataset freshness
• Work with engineering team on scalable ingestion workflows

6. Spatial Analysis

• Perform spatial queries and advanced spatial analysis
• Build overlays, zoning layers, and compliance intelligence
• Support internal teams with custom spatial data requests

Requirements

• 3 6 years of relevant GIS experience
• Strong hands-on experience with ArcGIS, QGIS, Mapbox, or similar tools
• Experience handling GIS data within databases (PostGIS preferred)
• Strong understanding of spatial data structures and coordinate systems
• Experience in data cleaning, transformation, and schema standardization
• Exposure to web scraping and automation tools (Python preferred)
• Strong analytical mindset able to evaluate data quality and usability
• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Geomatics, GIS, Computer Science, or related field
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

What We re Looking For

We are not just looking for someone who can draw maps. We want someone who:

• Thinks like a data engineer
• Understands GIS as infrastructure
• Can evaluate datasets from a business lens
• Is comfortable working with automation and scraping
• Takes ownership of data quality

Working Style and Principles

At Landeed, we value collaboration, work ethics, transparency, and continuous learning. We believe in empowering our team members to take ownership of their work and strive for excellence.

About the interview

Interviews will be conducted over two rounds, first one would be technical and second would be culture.

About Landeed

Two thirds of Indian court cases are land related. Our solution to this is Landeed, Indias fastest and most comprehensive title search engine. We are now actively growing our engineering and product teams to expand our title coverage to more Indian states and build an enterprise platform for government bodies and corporates alike.

Founded: 2022

Batch: S22

Team Size: 35

Status: Active

Location: Hyderabad, India