Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

RYZ Labs is seeking a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer to help build and evolve a platform that works with complex construction and location-based data.

This role combines strong software engineering skills with practical experience handling maps, coordinates, geometry, and geospatial information . You will be involved in building the systems that transform information from construction documents into accurate, usable geographic data that can support real-world field operations.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain production systems while contributing to technical architecture and engineering decisions.
• Build functionality around maps, geographic coordinates, spatial relationships, and geometric data.
• Develop solutions that can extract, process, validate, and transform geometry from unstructured or semi-structured documents.
• Work on functionality involving geographic measurements, distances, routing, asset locations, and other location-based calculations.
• Translate real-world geographic information into reliable data that can be visualized, measured, and used in the field.
• Handle imperfect data sources, including inconsistent formats, incomplete information, and ambiguous inputs.
• Establish approaches that prioritize data accuracy and clearly identify cases where a reliable result cannot be produced.
• Contribute to code reviews, engineering standards, testing, and continuous integration practices.
• Help improve system reliability through monitoring, observability, and safe failure mechanisms.
• Take increasing ownership of technical decisions and architectural areas as the product and engineering team grow.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience , with a track record of taking ownership of technical decisions and production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js .
• Previous experience developing software involving GIS, mapping, coordinates, geometry, or other geospatial data .
• Practical knowledge of one or more areas such as GeoJSON, KML, GIS platforms, routing, mapping systems, fleet tracking, logistics, agriculture, drones, or location-based applications .
• Experience processing data that may be incomplete, inconsistent, noisy, or difficult to interpret.
• Strong attention to accuracy, data integrity, and system correctness , particularly when software outputs impact real-world decisions.
• Ability to reason about edge cases and design systems that behave safely when information is insufficient or uncertain.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills .
• Comfortable working independently in a remote and distributed engineering environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience or education related to civil engineering, surveying, construction, asphalt, or estimating .
• Familiarity with construction concepts such as plans, alignments, stationing, quantities, and pay items .
• Experience working with routing, logistics, hauling, or distance calculations .
• Exposure to DOT bid packages or construction documentation .
• Familiarity with construction estimating platforms such as Bluebeam, B2W, HeavyBid, or HardDollar .
• Experience with 3D geospatial information , including terrain models, surface models, point clouds, or cut-and-fill calculations.
• Experience with technologies such as Turf.js, proj4js, PostGIS , or similar spatial libraries and databases.

What You'll Own

As you grow into the role, you will take ownership of important areas of the platform, including:

• Geospatial capabilities: how the product represents, processes, measures, and exports geographic information.
• Map and geometry workflows: transforming information extracted from documents into accurate real-world coordinates and usable geometry.
• Distance and routing functionality: supporting location-based calculations and hauling-related use cases.
• Core engineering: production code, technical design, architecture, and key engineering decisions.
• Reliability and quality: code reviews, testing, observability, monitoring, and engineering standards.
• Data correctness: ensuring the platform can distinguish between reliable results and situations where available information is insufficient.

About RYZ Labs

RYZ Labs is a startup studio founded in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs with extensive experience across technology and consumer businesses. The company brings together talented professionals across the US an