Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Get to know the Role:

OpenStreetCam is a free and open platform for street level imagery. Anyone can contribute images using a smartphone, action camera or dashcam. OSC will detect salient features from the uploaded images such as signs, lanes and road curvature to improve OpenStreetMap. The engineering team is cross-functional with mobile app development, front-end, back-end and scripting that support community contributions and targeted efforts to collect imagery in Southeast Asia. Expand the functionality of openstreetcam.org backend and data ingestion

The day-to-day activities:

• Collaborate with product manager, front-end and mobile developers to deliver new features in several areas:
  • API enhancements and documentation
  • Integration with external consumers of imagery
  • Ingestion imagery pipeline
• Discover and troubleshoot issues on existing architecture
• Maintain open source stack
• Participate in planning and estimation of effort to implement, test and maintain features
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards
• Gather feedback from end users and act on it to improve their experience

The must haves:
 

• 5+ years of relevant experience in back-end development
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Strong understanding of API architectures, system performance and scaling
• Experience in the following fields is considered a plus:
  • Front-end development
  • Geo domain knowledge
  • Contributions to open-source software

• Strong knowledge of back-end development (Python, PHP)
• Golang is a big plus
• RDBs (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
• RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure)
• Version Control Systems (Git)