QGIS Developer (Remote) at Datafin Recruitment

DUTIES:

Functional & Technical Skills:

• Collaborate with GIS analysts, team leaders, project managers and cross-functional teams to gather and define requirements for software projects.
• Design and develop GIS applications and tools that enable efficient data visualization, analysis, and reporting.
• Implement location-based services and geospatial functionalities within web and applications.
• Write well-documented, clean, and maintainable code that follows best practices and coding standards.
• Utilize libraries, APIs, and SDKs to enhance the capabilities of software
• applications.
• Stay up to date with advancements in GIS technology and software engineering trends.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions with team members.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies, system development lifecycles, tools, and technology.
• Support maintenance planning by performing spatial analysis, producing cartography and other data visualization, developing data sets, automating spatial and tabular data processing, and building web-based tools for data exploration.

REQUIREMENTS:

Technical Knowledge (GIS):

• Proficiency in GIS platforms, including QGIS, PostGIS or similar
• Experience with geospatial libraries, frameworks, and APIs for web mapping and spatial analysis – JavaScript, Leaflet, Mapbox GL, and OpenLayers
• Experience Acerating maps using GIS software
• Web application development using cloud-based GIS tools
• Web application programming such as jQuery, D3, OpenLayers, Leaflet, or Google Maps

Technical Knowledge (Other):

• Develop, implement, and maintain web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other front-end technologies.
• Demonstrable ability to work with product stakeholders to translate wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes into high-quality user interface designs.
• Implemented, worked with, and maintained design systems and style frameworks.
• Experience building and working with front-end frameworks such as Vue or React
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git and agile development methodologies.
• Experience with AWS, Google, Digital Ocean and Azure
• Web application development using cloud-based GIS tools, ‘cloud native GIS’.