Software Engineer - Backend

About the Team

Gecko’s software teams come into the picture after our robots and operators collect data in the field. The petabytes of data our robots collect are only valuable and useful if we as humans (and our software tools) are able to understand the story the inspections are telling. The Software Organization’s work bridges multiple data layers and functions, ultimately converging in our transformative  Cantilever software that  directly impacts critical maintenance and repair decision making worldwide. 

Role at a Glance

We have multiple teams within the Software Organization that you can make an impact on. On any of our teams, you will work in a highly collaborative environment to design, code, and ship the features that unlock insights and value from the huge volumes of data collected by Gecko robots everyday. Our teams are full stack in nature by design and are made up by folks with varying backgrounds. 

What you will do 

We currently have openings across the below teams, and want to get to know you better throughout interviews to determine the best match for you and your skillset/interests: 

• Data Systems - The Data Systems team creates the software needed to turn raw inspection data into deliverables for customers, develop pipelines that perform automated processing, and empower our internal data analysis team with tools to manually process datasets more efficiently and accurately. 
• Enterprise - The Enterprise Team is responsible for Gecko’s customer facing, business-to-business, enterprise software.  These range from map-based fleet management solutions to digital twin systems for use by clients around the world. As an Enterprise team developer, you will work on constructing high-performance 2D and 3D data visualizations, as well as developing predictive models and planning workflows. Strong software design pattern skills and a user experience mindset are crucial to success.
• Rolodex - The Rolodex team builds critical backend services for Gecko, creating a single source of truth data lake that is used across every other team and application. We're driven to provide a great experience for our users, building easy to use tools that perform at scale.
• Platform - The Software Platform team’s purpose is to empower software engineers, reduce unnecessary blockers, and increase our velocity to create exceptional products. They do this by making software effortless to build, deploy, and manage. Using automation, shared libraries, and DevEx tools, they solve the common software problems so other engineers can focus on Gecko’s unique challenges.

Technologies We Use

We use a variety of technologies, but we primarily operate using Python, React, and Typescript with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our cloud provider. This is a non-exhaustive list and we are tech agnostic in our interview process, so we encourage you to apply regardless of your background.

About You

• Expertise in writing clean, maintainable code for a production environment
• Experience designing secure, user-friendly APIs that enable intuitive data interaction and application development 
• Real world experience building, maintaining, and replacing data infrastructure 
• Desire to have a high impact at a fast-moving startup as a key contributor on a new project and fast-growing team
• Exceptional communication skills and commitment to receiving and providing continuous feedback
• An open mindset to new ideas and innovative problem solving 
• Excited to dive into new technologies and embrace strong DevOps practices
• High self-motivation and love of self-directed learning
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 3 years (or preferably more!) of hands on development in a production environment