Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KoBold Metals is a leading independent mineral exploration company focused on utilizing AI for mineral exploration. The Frontend Software Engineer will build user-friendly web applications and collaborate with scientists to create tools for geospatial visualizations, while also improving existing applications and mentoring junior developers.

Responsibilities

• Build intuitive and elegant user experiences to empower fellow KoBolders with backgrounds in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and data science
• Own and improve KoBold’s existing web apps that manage data upload, discovery, search, and visualization
• Collaborate with scientists to architect new tools to support complex, interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, plotting, and data labeling
• Champion frontend best practices. Modernize our stack to standardize our UIs, prototype faster, and deploy useful apps for our geologists and data scientists. Mentor junior developers
• Setup systems to automate the testing of our UIs

Skills

• Experience in architecting, developing, and maintaining frontend applications that provide a rich user experience
• Experience in writing production-quality code that is correct, performant, scalable, and extensible
• Skilled with data visualization libraries (D3, Leaflet, etc)
• Experience with the following: modern JavaScript tools (node.js, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc), modern deployment and cloud technologies, Python web frameworks (Django, Panel, Flask, etc), and classic frontend development (HTML, CSS, etc)
• Experience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms, such as Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, etc
• Experience with frontend automated-testing systems (Cypress, Selenium, etc)

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