Remote Geospatial Frontend Engineer - TypeScript/React

orcristtechnologies; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work in Germany

30 days of vacation

Equipment and learning support

Ownership of components used across平台

Job summary

orcristtechnologies is seeking a skilled GIS frontend engineer to build a TypeScript/React web interface for spatial analysis. You will extend a map platform with MapLibre and deck.gl, implement drawing, filtering, and temporal tools, and ensure responsive interactions across complex geospatial data sources.

The role emphasizes performance profiling, WebGL concepts, and building reusable visualization components beyond a standard map, with remote-first work in Germany and strong collaboration

Qualifications

• Several years building sophisticated production interfaces with TypeScript and React.
• Experience with web mapping or geospatial visualization using MapLibre, deck.gl, Mapbox GL, OpenLayers, CesiumJS, or comparable tools.
• Experience extending mapping libraries or building reusable visualization components beyond embedding a standard map.
• Strong understanding of frontend state, asynchronous data loading, browser rendering, and performance profiling.
• Familiarity with WebGL concepts and the practical costs of geometry processing, GPU buffers, large textures, and frequent layer updates.
• Good geospatial fundamentals including projections, coordinate systems, vector tiles, raster imagery, scale, and spatial accuracy, plus eligibility to work in Germany.

Responsibilities

• Develop a reusable map canvas and layer system covering raster imagery, vector features, terrain, and analytical overlays.
• Build layer discovery, grouping, ordering, visibility, opacity, legends, styling, and persistent workspace state, including behavior when sources refresh or fail.
• Implement GIS interactions such as drawing, measurement, spatial selection, feature inspection, coordinate readouts, filtering, and map export.
• Create temporal exploration tools, imagery comparison views, and linked map/table interactions for complex analytical results.
• Extend mapping libraries with custom layers, controls, picking behavior, and rendering logic, working below the React component layer when performance demands it.
• Integrate COGs, PMTiles, GeoParquet, and Arrow-based data sources with viewport-aware loading, cancellation, caching, and progressive feedback.
• Profile CPU, GPU, network, and memory usage, and keep panning, zooming, and interaction responsive through LO.D level-of-detail strategies and controlled layer updates.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Geospatial visualization

WebGL concepts

Performance profiling

Tools

MapLibre

deck.gl

Mapbox GL

OpenLayers

CesiumJS

Job description

orcristtechnologies is seeking a skilled GIS frontend engineer to build a TypeScript/React web interface for spatial analysis. You will extend a map platform with MapLibre and deck.gl, implement drawing, filtering, and temporal tools, and ensure responsive interactions across complex geospatial data sources.

The role emphasizes performance profiling, WebGL concepts, and building reusable visualization components beyond a standard map, with remote-first work in Germany and strong collaboration