Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Geospatial Fire Platform Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO policy

Company equity

Cell phone stipend (per pay period)

Home office setup allowance (one-time)

Job summary

Vibrant Planet is seeking an Application Engineer to evolve our wildfire resilience platform and our utilities platform — the common operating picture that helps community protection, utility, and land management leaders make informed, coordinated decisions about wildfire and climate risk.

Our decision support apps support thousands of mitigation plans designed to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications.
• Proficiency in Elixir, including OTP.
• Proficiency with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
• Demonstrated ability to ship features end-to-end in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to scope ambiguous problems with PMs, designers, and domain experts.
• Comfort working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features across our Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, JavaScript, and Postgres stack, spanning both our core wildfire resilience platform and our utilities applications.
• Work with large geospatial datasets — raster, vector, and tiled data — to surface forest planning, scenario building, and treatment outcome insights to end users.
• Partner with Product and Design to scope, refine, and deliver user-facing workflows for land managers, foresters, and partner organizations.
• Own features end-to-end, from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on user feedback.
• Contribute to platform reliability through code review, automated testing, observability, and on‑call participation in our Sev process.
• Collaborate with Environmental Analysis and Infrastructure teams to integrate geospatial models (Pyrologix, ForSys/Patchmax, canopy height) into the application experience.
• Improve developer experience and engineering velocity through tooling, refactoring, and documentation.
• Mentor and pair with other engineers, and participate in technical interviews as the team grows.

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL

Elixir/OTP

PostGIS

GDAL

GeoJSON

Mapbox/MapLibre

Tippecanoe

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Vibrant Planet is seeking an Application Engineer to evolve our wildfire resilience platform and our utilities platform — the common operating picture that helps community protection, utility, and land management leaders make informed, coordinated decisions about wildfire and climate risk.

Our decision support apps support thousands of mitigation plans designed to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier.