GIS Product Engineer II – ArcGIS Maps SDKs Native Apps

Position: GIS Product Engineer II – ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps
Overview Bring your enthusiasm and talents to Esri, creating industry leading ArcGIS products. The ArcGIS Maps SDKs allow developers to build modern mapping applications for mobile and desktop platforms, with 2D and 3D data visualisation, and online or offline access. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the product development team and support the delivery of regular, high-quality releases in a collaborative and dynamic environment.  

Help us improve our cross-platform GIS software libraries, built on the latest compilers and C++ standards, and create sample apps, developer documentation, and developer outreach.  Esri has a Relocation Assistance Program and can provide support with relocating to the Cardiff area for this position. Check out more details of the Esri R&D Center – Cardiff!

Responsibilities Apply curious, independent thought, and attention to detail to explore and understand the challenges that ArcGIS users face and provide usable, informative feedback on user experience

Understand the customer, who are software developers, gathering requirements and use cases that translate into actionable code and doc improvements

Build focused test code to represent complex situations for investigation and regression testing

Learn about and collaborate in SDK environments (such as Kotlin, Qt, C#, Swift, Flutter, Python), to explore issues, investigate problems, and design and prototype enhancements

Build rich and varied GIS datasets and maps, sample applications and articles that can be used to highlight product capabilities, explain APIs and guide user (developer) practices

Work with your development team, and teams across Esri, to design, create, and validate the newest datasets and GIS workflows to support field mapping, data collection, spatial analysis and verify the functionality meets user workflows and is consistent with Esri ecosystem

Describe GIS best practices and demonstrate how to apply these GIS workflows in internal team meetings, on product forums and websites, with customers, at Esri events, or in publications like the ArcGIS Blog Document technical topics and concepts, and produce developer-focused product documentation

Administer, automate, and manage online and database GIS systems and services to support the development of new product features and ongoing product releases

Requirements2+ years of GIS experience (such as modeling, analyzing, or presenting geospatial data in a scientific, engineering, governmental, or post graduate academic environment)
Proficiency with mapping, spatial data or GIS platforms such as ArcGIS or QGIS Basic programming in any modern language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, C#, Java), sufficient to understand variables, function calls, if-statements, loops and arrays

Strong problem-solving and analytic skills

Proven initiative and creativity to find ways to explore, investigate, test and validate software behavior

Excellent communication and team collaboration skills

Experience of , and interest in, scripting or coding to appreciate our developer users' challenges and to communicate effectively with the development team Bachelor’s degree in GIS, geography, computer science, engineering, or related field

Existing work authorisation for the United Kingdom Recommended Qualifications Experience and passion for working with cartography, mapping or geospatial data Interest in or knowledge of layout, typography, and fonts for international text Proven experience of user communication and education such as having been responsible for product documentation, blogs, written or video tutorials, presentations

Familiarity using version control systems such as Git, for documentation and code Familiarity with some of the scripting or coding languages which our SDKs…