Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KoBold Metals builds AI models and deploys novel sensors to guide mineral exploration decisions. The Frontend Software Engineer will build and maintain intuitive web applications, develop interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, modernize frontend systems, mentor junior developers, and automate UI testing.

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)
• All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
• 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)
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Will be open to working directly with geologists in the field
• Excited to work on a wide range of problems in a dynamic work environment, to take on a wide range of responsibilities, and to learn new tech and science
• Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company
• Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada
• All employees are expected to travel to project sites, with a minimum of one week per year

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