Full Stack Software Engineer

Title:

Full Stack Software Engineer

BELONG. CONNECT. GROW. with K .

Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely by supporting the science that informs decision makers and protects Earth.

K ’s Science and Space division is seeking a Software Engineer/Web Developer to support our Technical Support Services Contract (TSSC) at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation & Science (EROS) Center (http://eros.usgs.gov/) near Sioux Falls, SD (http://www.siouxfalls.org).

This position is for anentry to mid-level Software Engineer with a Web Development background to join our talented team in creating exciting, cutting-edge web-based mapping tools for Science projects that serve a variety of communities including wildland fire management, drought monitoring, and land cover mapping.

Position Summary

Title:
Full Stack Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain websites and mapping applications for visualizing and distributing geospatial data.
• Develop Python scripts that produce geospatial data products.
• Support a diverse array of technologies including, but not limited to PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML.
• Interact with a skilled web development team that supports the USGS EROS Integrated Science Applications Branch.

Minimum Requirements

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain credentials for facility access and user accounts

• Education: Must minimally hold a software engineering or computer science bachelor’s degree
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  Must have minimum 3-5 years of recent and related work experience
• Experience with web design, administration, and database-driven applications
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (such as React, Jquery, Open Layers and Leaflet), and strong proficiency with HTML/CSS
• Experience with Python and PHP
• Experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with security concepts
• Experience with collaboration software
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Well versed in software engineering methodology and processes

Areas of Desired Experience & Skills

• Familiarity with a cloud provider/concepts (like AWS or Azure)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or other container knowledge
• Familiarity with requirements and design analysis
• Experience with testing and configuration management tools such as Git
• Experience with geospatial tools (commercial or open source), including analysis, visualization, or data handling workflows
• Knowledge of OGC standards (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS) and OGC APIs
• Familiarity with projections, reference systems, and spatial data transformations

Experience and/or Education in lieu of these qualifications will be reviewed for applicability to meet these requirements.

Work Location

• This position supports a team anchored in Sioux Falls, SD , and is offered in a hybrid remote/onsite work environment. Fully remote work will be considered for the right candidate.
• Three years of continuous residency in the US for issuance of a Government Security credential is required.

K  partners with several other companies to fulfill its requirements as a government contractor. The selected subcontracting companies align their benefits as closely as possible to those of K .

Three
years of continuous residency in the US for issuance of a Government Security credential

K  Benefits:

K  offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include
401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D,…