Full stack developer Offres d'emploi - Ottawa, ON

GHGSat offers greenhouse gas detection, measurement, and monitoring services to industrial and government customers around the world. We use our own satellites and aircraft sensors, combined with third-party data, to help industrial emitters better understand, control, and reduce their emissions.

Our capability is unique: we provide high-resolution, local measurements of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide concentration from remote sensors, enabling precise detection, visualization, and quantification of greenhouse gas emissions.

We are looking for an innovative Full Stack Web Developer for our Electric-Eye team working a web application enabling the processing and visualization of remote sensing data. As part of a cross-functional Agile Scrum team, you will design, develop, test, deploy, and support our post-processing software. You should be comfortable around both frontend and backend coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. Overall, you have an excellent knowledge of web technologies, security standards and best practices, along with a strong motivation in tackling the important environmental issues that our planet faces today.

Responsibilities:

• Develop tools and application features to improve the workflow of processing emission-related data
• Evaluate, integrate and support frontend and backend services, databases, data transformation frameworks, and APIs
• Take ownership of the implementation of new features throughout their lifecycle from wireframes and system requirements through testing, implementation and support
• Optimize data structures, schemas and queries for performance and scalability
• Collaborate regularly with the team to design and evolve system architecture
• Maintain and ensure high availability of the data processing platform
• Liaise with developers, designers, QA and product stakeholders to identify new features
• NOTE: This role requires participation in a shared on call rotation with other members of the team.

Requirements

Required skills

• Strong computational science or software development skills
• Proven capability with JavaScript, Typescript, and Python
• Experience with modern web technologies (React.js, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5)
• Experience with building and consuming REST APIs’
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, ECR, S3, DynamoDB)
• Competence with databases (PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
• Experience using software development tools such as Git version control and Docker
• Experience designing and implementing services in a cloud-native environment (AWS)
• Ability to independently deliver well-defined features with minimal supervision
• Availability to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation and provide occasional support outside regular business hours, including weekends, to ensure operational continuity.

Assets

• Experience with web-based geospatial visualization tools (OpenLayers, WebGL)
• Experience working with geospatial and remote sensing data formats (e.g., GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, raster/vector data)
• Interest in scientific analysis, atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and space technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 2+ years of experience in relevant roles
• All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must meet the requirements of the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP)

Benefits

This is a rare opportunity to work on urgent problems. You’ll join a small but high-impact team and help scale a company doing meaningful work for the planet.

• Competitive salary and stock options for all full-time employees
• Health and dental benefits
• Paid time off and floating statutory holidays
• Flexible work environment

GHGSat offers a creative and highly motivating work environment. We provide competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for ongoing development.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. GHGSat is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation, please notify your recruiter.