Fortius Geospatial Review may be difficult to say unless you've taken Latin, but we've got a great workplace and we're highly respected in our field.
We work for a fun company full of smart people, and we're looking for others with those same qualities to join us. We value free-thinking and initiative, so robots and drones need not apply.
The tools we build, such as the analysis platform and the mapping platform, are held up as examples of the way to do things by other companies, and are used all over the world. In addition, we've got great benefits, but the best reason to come work for us is that you want to work at a place where you make a difference, have fun with your co-workers, and have your intelligence and creativity respected and rewarded.
If you're interested, and want to join our team, introduce yourself and send us a link to other work you've been a part of. You can also send us a message on Twitter to @fortiusone.
And recruiting agencies and outsourcing companies will be promptly ignored. Thanks anyway!
Sales and Business Development
Platform Engineer
Fortius Geospatial Review develops one of the most advanced and interactive geospatial and data analysis on the web. Underneath we have a powerful platform built primarily with Ruby on Rails that can slice and dice data to serve to visualizations using a mixture of Flash, JavaScript and Canvas through open-source and in-house libraries.
We're looking for a world-class web engineer to join our team developing the next generation of our the analysis platform platform that powers the popular online site the mapping platform. You'll work within the engineering team to design and implement solutions in a fast-paced and agile work environment. We highly value innovation and solving the hard problems in interesting and compelling ways.
If you're interested, send us your CV and also links to web applications and libraries that you've built. If you blog or write for online journals and publications about your expertise, even better. Share those with us.
Responsibilities
- Implement new features and capabilities into the the analysis platform platform and the mapping platform website.
- Investigate and implement new technologies for asynchronous messaging, large scale
data storage, replicated caching, data processing, API's - Rapid Prototype and development of interfaces utilizing user-centered design principles.
- Interaction implementation using modern principles of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (DHTML, AJAX, HTML5, et al.)
- Responsible for considering web page size and speed optimization, and graceful degradation of pages for supporting older browsers or bandwidth restricted users.
- Provide feedback and design additional API and formats for integrating built-in and third-party components into the the analysis platform platform.
- Work as a member of a smart, fast-paced engineering team and closely within the entire company to match customer needs, future company goals, and cutting-edge technology.
- Be able to discuss technology and the platform with other developers on the web and at meetings and conferences.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Demonstrable advanced expertise in Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework (3+ years)
- Experience developing advanced applications using JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype, Raphael)
- Development and optimization of database driven applications - particularly
PostgreSQL/MySQL (PostGIS), and modern NoSQL stores (Cassandra,MongoDB, HBase) - 5+ years experience and a proven record of success in developing web applications; including elements of user experience, information architecture, and simplicity in design and presentation.
- Excellent communication, testing and documentation skills
- Ability to work across multiple products and projects while prioritizing and managing time and resources effectively
And above all, you should be excited to quickly iterate through ideas, provide additional insight and work both independently and part of the team.
Additional Desirable Experience
- Experience with Geospatial mapping (2+ years)
- Familiarity with other programming languages such as Python, Java, C/C++, Erlang
- Participation in Open-Source software projects and communities such as Lucene/Solr, AMQP, Hadoop, or Ruby gems and Rails plugins
- Experience with scientific/numerical computing and visualization
- Familiarity with ActionScript, Canvas, and/or SVG
- Integration with mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, Blackberry
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux operating system and development environments
Personal Characteristics
- Results oriented
- Ability to intelligently reason through problems and effect solutions
- Enthusiastic – Desire to Win
- Team orientation; no lone rangers
- Ability to multi-task effectively
- High energy, self starter
- Strong reputation for integrity and ethics
- Confident yet personable
- Temperament to follow through to completion
- Persistent
QA Engineer
Do you like to break things? We need things broken so they can be fixed before they go to our customers.
Fortius Geospatial Review develops one of the most advanced and interactive geospatial and data analysis applications on the web. Underneath we have a powerful platform built primarily with Ruby on Rails that can slice and dice data to serve visualizations using a mixture of Flash, JavaScript and Canvas through open-source and in-house libraries.
Summary
We are looking for a world-class QA Engineer to take charge of our software testing. You'll work on the product support team with our engineers testing solutions in a fast-paced and agile work environment. We highly value innovation and solving the hard problems in interesting and compelling ways. We are looking for a talented person who will progressively automate the unit, functional, regression, performance, load and endurance testing for the the company Web platform and applications. We use a variety of COTS and open source tools for testing and also rely heavily on unit testing frameworks and tests produced during development. A background in software development and scripting is required.
Responsibilities
- Work with product managers to understand feature specs and create test plans and test case documentation
- Develop quality criteria of applications, system feature and components
- Develop test plans to perform functional and regression tests
- Automate these test plans using COTS and open source test tools
- Build and configure test environments
- Work with developers to provide necessary test harnesses
- Troubleshoot and perform problem isolation and root-cause analysis
- Develop, script, run and analyze performance and load tests
- Coordinate with in-house Data Team to perform manual/usability testing
- Strive to reduce the amount of time doing manual functional testing as much as possible
Required Skills
- Previous experience working in software quality assurance
- Version Control: (preferably Git)
- Scripting Language: JavaScript, Ruby, PERL, Python or similar
- Experience creating data sets for test scenarios
- Bug tracking software: (Redmine)
- Unix/Linux: (CentOS/RHEL)
- Test Automation Software: (Selenium is a plus)
Sales and Business Development
We are looking for sales and business development partners to join us in our ongoing efforts to build enterprise, government and partner relationships. If you have experience in geo-based industries, selling to enterprise, government or building successful partnership relationships, we are interested in talking to you.
