Senior Geospatial Backend Engineer

CoreLogic; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cotality is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with geospatial expertise to join our Location Services team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable location-based services and geospatial capabilities powering critical workflows.

Hybrid role: 1 day in the office and 4 days from home, based from any US office (Dallas, Austin, Irvine, or San Diego). You will own end-to-end delivery of geospatial components and collaborate with product managers and partner engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on geospatial experience in production backends.
• Experience with location-based services and spatial data pipelines.
• Designing scalable distributed systems and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Python, or Go.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Location Services.
• Lead design of geospatial features and APIs for production use.
• Apply geospatial modeling, indexing, querying, and processing.
• Write clean, tested code and adopt modern tools and patterns.
• Own end-to-end delivery of geospatial components and microservices.
• Support integration with partner engineering teams and provide guidance.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and root-cause analyses.

Skills

Geospatial expertise

Backend development

REST APIs

Cloud-native apps

Java

C++

Python

Go

Cloud platforms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GeoServer

GDAL

GeoJSON

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

Cotality is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with geospatial expertise to join our Location Services team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable location-based services and geospatial capabilities powering critical workflows.

Hybrid role: 1 day in the office and 4 days from home, based from any US office (Dallas, Austin, Irvine, or San Diego). You will own end-to-end delivery of geospatial components and collaborate with product managers and partner engineering teams.