Director of Engineering - Maps

ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

One of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, Placer.ai (“Placer”) reached $100 million ARR“Centaur” status in 2024, within 6 years of launching the Placer platform. We previously crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” threshold in 2022. Our A.I.-based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, we accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.

Our platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. We have grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more. Named one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, we are proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture.

SUMMARY:

We are looking for a Director of Engineering - Maps to lead our Mapping and GIS engineering team. In this full-stack role, you will own and grow Placer’s mapping experiences and infrastructure, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Placer’s product suite and platform.  Our product’s development and user experience. Role is US-based.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruit, train and manage a team of stellar full-stack engineers.
• Manage and technically lead full-stack, US & Latam based engineering teams
• Lead the architecture, design and development of our mapping infrastructure and user experiences.
• Technically interface with a large number of teams, and provide mapping services for our Dashboards, customer reports and, partners (as embedded widgets).
• Participate in the development of our long term product vision 
• Collaborate with product managers, and be close to our business requirements and business needs.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Demonstrated multi-year experience in full-stack engineering, focused on user experience of large-scale spatial / GIS products or services.
• Proven ability to recruit, train and maintain star developers in America.
• Leader, technical mentor and a people manager with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Hands-on manager, who loves to write and review code, with hands-on experience in recent full-stack / front-end mapping technologies. 
• Strong coding skills and a “get-things-done” approach.
• Ability to Engineer, design and develop large scale, high performance mapping components.
• Extensive experience in designing and building scalable frontend infrastructure, easily maintained and extended. 
• Critical / First principle thinking - able to identify root causes of issues and tightly collaborate with all parts of the organization.
• Familiarity with recent technologies in the Full-stack / Front-end domain.

Nice to have experience

• Hands-on experience with Mapbox and/or ESRI infrastructure.
• Experience with data related technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Python, Scala, NoSQL and analytical databases.
• Experience with a cloud platform: GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure.
• Experience in data analytic and data analysis.

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Fully remote

The U.S. annualized pay range for this position is $220,000-$270,000 USD. In addition, certain roles have the opportunity to earn sales-based commissions. Base pay offered within the stated range may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related skills, professional experience, education and licenses (if applicable), work location and compensation market data.

Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Placer provides medical, dental and vision coverage as well as flexible time off, 401K and equity awards for certain roles.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai in a nutshell
• Placer.ai's recent $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• Placer.ai's data
• Placer.ai in the news
• COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

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