Come work at Gaia GPS, and build software and maps for the wildest adventures on earth. Help people explore the backcountry, around the globe, with cutting edge data and tools.

About the Work

We're specifically looking for someone to work in a mostly backend role, focusing on search and route recommendations. This role involves working with interesting data, and writing algorithms and tools to use that data to improve the search, map, and route discovery experiences. You'll help people find great places to hike and other neat things outdoors.

About the Teams

Engineering at Gaia GPS means being on 1 of 2 small teams. Each team has cross-platform skills (iOS, Android, web, design) and sets its own roadmap in collaboration with user support and marketing. There is a huge frontier of ideas to explore, from core maptech and search problems, to the quest for an easy and engaging UX.

Lifestyle and Benefits

• The company is all remote, currently distributed across North America.
• We have the most flexible work environment, which lets all of us balance family and other interests, with work.
• We offer 4 weeks of vacation, and another 12 paid holidays that can be shuffled around. We provide 2 months of paid maternity and 1 month of paid paternity.
• Non-salary financial benefits include health insurance and 401K matching.
• We provide the best computers, monitors, tablets, and other home office equipment. We reimburse home internet and mobile phone bills. We comp expenses for any sort of books or other materials for learning.
• We have a retreat every 9 months, alternating with and without families (past ones include Tahoe, Zion, Rocky Mountain NP, Park City, camping, backcountry skiing, etc), to hang-out and mingle the remote team.

Skills and Requirements

• You must have published complex websites, apps, or other software.
• Experience in our stack is a plus. Our front-end includes Swift/Objective-C, Android Kotlin/Java, and React. Our back-end includes Postgres/PostGIS, AWS, Django/Python, node.js, and Docker. We have extensive map building infrastructure based on OpenStreetMap and other open data and tools.

Lean Media is looking for experts to help us with the ongoing import, enrichment (including geospatial), and architecture of big datasets (millions to billions of records at a time).

Our infrastructure and tech stack includes:

• Amazon Redshift, Spectrum, Athena
• AWS Lambda
• AWS S3 Data Lakes
• PostgreSQL, PostGIS
• Apache Superset

We are looking for expertise in:

• Building efficient ETL pipelines, including enrichments
• Best practices regarding the ongoing ingestion of big datasets from disparate sources
• High performance enrichment of geospatial data
• Optimizing data structures as they relate to achieving performant queries via analytics tools
• Architecting a sustainable data infrastructure supporting all of the above

While this posting is for a contract position, we are open to short projects, ongoing engagements, and even full time employment opportunities. If you have a high degree of skill and experience in the area of big data architecture in AWS, then please let us know!