Application Software Engineer

Vibrant Planet; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Company equity

Cell phone stipend

Home office setup allowance

Job summary

Vibrant Planet is seeking application engineers to build tools for land managers, fire districts, and utility planners. You will work on full-stack features using Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and PostgreSQL, delivering simulations and decision-support outputs as tables, charts, and map layers.

Our team collaborates with product, design, data engineering, infrastructure, science, and operations to create scalable, remote-friendly software in a startup setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering full-stack web apps.
• Proficiency in designing responsive, accessible UIs with product collaboration.
• Strong SQL skills; PostgreSQL experience is a bonus.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Develop full-stack features in Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and Postgres.
• Collaborate with product, design, data engineering, and operations.
• Deliver decision-support tools with map layers and charts.
• Ensure accessible, responsive UI across web interfaces.

Skills

Full-stack web engineering

UI/UX collaboration

SQL/PostgreSQL

Elixir/Phoenix

Remote startup experience

Tools

PostGIS

Job description

POSITION DETAILS

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Engineering Manager, Application Lead

Location: Remote, US | PDT or MDT

Employment: Full-time

Travel: None

ABOUT VIBRANT PLANET

We are a team of leaders in fire science, applied science, forestry, policy, and tech who work with land managers, community risk managers, utilities, and insurers to drive action that lowers the risk of destructive wildfire. Our cloud-based, AI-driven platform modernizes land management planning, community risk assessment, and monitoring through scenario building, decision support, and treatment outcome detection.

Our fire science subsidiary, Pyrologix, produces leading wildfire science and models that quantify wildfire hazard and risk, and the benefits of mitigation action. This science powers the core Vibrant Planet platform and supports our work across utilities, insurance, and other sectors.

Vibrant Planet is backed by climate and resilience leaders including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, Elemental Excelerator, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Cisco, and Halogen Ventures. For more information, visit vibrantplanet.net and pyrologix.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our applications support decision making to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier. As application engineers, we build tools that land managers, fire districts, and utility planners use to make decisions to mitigate wildfire and climate risk, across our wildfire resilience and utilities applications. These applications run and present the results of optimizations and simulations as both statistics in tables and charts, and layers on a map.

We build full stack features within an Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and Postgres application stack. We collaborate with product, design, data engineering, infrastructure, science, and operations.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You thrive on building great products in a startup atmosphere. Given a loosely defined problem, you can collaborate with others to resolve ambiguities and ship high quality features.

Many of our engineers bring a second area of expertise alongside their technical skills, like ecology, forestry, or fire science. If you've built a career at the intersection of natural sciences and engineering, we want to hear from you.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping full-stack web applications.
• Hands-on experience turning designs into responsive, accessible UIs. You have worked closely with product and design partners.
• Strong proficiency with SQL and relational databases. PostgreSQL experience is a bonus.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

• Experience building interactive web maps with a working knowledge of geospatial fundamentals such as projections and spatial data formats (Geopackage, GeoTIFF, etc.).
• Domain expertise in a natural science/resource field (forestry, ecology, remote sensing, fire science, meteorology, or related field).
• Experience with Elixir and some front-end framework, preferably Phoenix LiveView.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience generating, serving, and consuming raster and vector tilesets (Tippecanoe, MBTiles/PMTiles).
• Experience with PostGIS or other spatial database tooling.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: $100,000 – $200,000

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Company equity
• Cell phone stipend (per pay period)
• Home office setup allowance (one-time)