Software Engineer "Spontaneous Application”

Software Engineer "Spontaneous Application” Join Vizzuality’s Talent Pool! Are you motivated by the desire to help build a sustainable planet for all life on Earth? Are you looking for a new opportunity? Vizzuality’s purpose is to reach a fair and sustainable planet by creating tools that radically empower people to make positive changes now. We are a world-leading technology, design and science agency. We design and develop data-driven tools and applications for international organizations that focus on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Inequality. Solving such large and complex problems will bring you into contact with new technology and some of the world’s most interesting organizations and academics in machine learning, remote sensing, and planetary data. You’ll be working on projects like these: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ https://supplychains.trase.earth/ https://resourcewatch.org/ https://www.half-earthproject.org/maps/ If there are no open vacancies, can I send you my details? Yes of course! At this moment, we don't have any open job vacancies, but we’re always looking for people who are passionate about using their creativity and skills to make a difference in people’s lives, the environment and help make the world a better place. We’re excited to grow our team with curious, empathetic, and honest people with whom we can learn and develop professionally and personally together. If after reading the description below, you like our culture and believe you have what it takes to join Vizzuality, please send us your application so we can add you to our talent pool. Things you should include and consider in your application : Send us your CV and Cover Letter, explaining why you would like to work with us and what you can bring to the team. Please include any samples of your code and projects you find relevant to the role. Fluent English is really important to us, so if it’s not your first language please demonstrate your abilities in your CV and Cover Letter. We will not consider applications that are not sent in English. We have operations in Spain, Portugal and the UK, and at this moment, people are working remotely or at our office in Madrid. You are very welcome to join us if you are eligible to work in any of these three countries. Will I be hearing back from Vizzuality any time soon? As soon as we open a vacancy that matches your profile, we will contact you so we can agree on a time to get to know each other.  We thank you once again for choosing Vizzuality as your employer of choice. That means a lot to us! Software Engineers at Vizzuality These are some of the TASKS you will be doing as a Software Engineer at Vizzuality: You will work with agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies. Liaising with data scientists, engineers (Front, Back), project managers, and designers to find novel and creative technical solutions that solve specific client/project needs and integrate disparate technologies such as remote sensing, machine learning, image processing or statistical computing into public APIs Ensuring software quality, robustness, and compliance with standards by reviewing code, documenting, and creating automated tests. Prototyping solutions using new technologies to push the boundaries of what can be done in terms of capacity, speed, and functionality. You will learn and experiment with new technologies to understand how evolving trends affect our domain and apply them to our projects. These are some of the SKILLS & EXPERIENCES we value in the Software Engineer team: Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems and all points in between. The more skills and experiences you can bring to Vizzuality, the better! Our stack includes Javascript, NodeJS, Ruby, Rails, and Python so if you can bring some skills and experie ... (truncated, view full listing at source)