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Vibrant Planet
Development 6d ago

Application Software Engineer

Vibrant Planet
United StatesUnited States
Full-time
$100,000 – $200,000
Mid-Level

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Our applications support decision-making to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier. As application engineers, we build tools that land managers, fire districts, and utility planners use to make decisions to mitigate wildfire and climate risk, across our wildfire resilience and utilities applications. These applications run and present the results of optimizations and simulations as both statistics in tables and charts, and layers on a map.

We build full-stack features within an Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and PostgreSQL application stack. We collaborate with product, design, data engineering, infrastructure, science, and operations.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You thrive on building great products in a startup atmosphere. Given a loosely defined problem, you can collaborate with others to resolve ambiguities and ship high-quality features.

Many of our engineers bring a second area of expertise alongside their technical skills, like ecology, forestry, or fire science. If you've built a career at the intersection of natural sciences and engineering, we want to hear from you.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping full-stack web applications.
  • Hands-on experience turning designs into responsive, accessible UIs. You have worked closely with product and design partners.
  • Strong proficiency with SQL and relational databases. PostgreSQL experience is a bonus.
  • Comfortable working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

At least one of the following:

  • • Experience building interactive web maps with a working knowledge of geospatial fundamentals such as projections and spatial data formats (Geopackage, GeoTIFF, etc.).
  • • Domain expertise in a natural science/resource field (forestry, ecology, remote sensing, fire science, meteorology, or related field).
  • • Experience with Elixir and some front-end framework, preferably Phoenix LiveView.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • • Experience generating, serving, and consuming raster and vector tilesets (Tippecanoe, MBTiles/PMTiles).
  • • Experience with PostGIS or other spatial database tooling.

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Vibrant Planet (operating at vibrantplanet.com) is a wildfire risk management platform engineered for communities, utilities, and land managers to mitigate catastrophic wildfire threats. Founded in 2020 by Allison Wolff and headquartered in Truckee, CA, Vibrant Planet specializes in data-driven solutions where traditional methods fall short—offering real-time wildfire modeling, ecological analytics, and resilience planning. Under the hood, the platform leverages AI and scientific data to simulate fire spread, assess risk, and optimize mitigation strategies. This empowers local governments, utilities, and land managers to proactively allocate resources, reduce vulnerabilities, and enhance community safety. Backed by a $17M seed round led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund and The Jeremy & Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, Vibrant Planet is accelerating its mission to transform wildfire resilience through technology.

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