Frontend Software Engineer

Key Skills

AWS, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, CSS, Data Architecture, Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Github, HTML, Jenkins, Kubernetes-K8s, Postgres, UX design

Job Description

About the Company

KoBold Metals is a rapidly growing Silicon Valley start-up using AI to enable the transition to electrification and help solve climate change. We are backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a16z, Bond Capital, Sam Altman, T Rowe Price, and other premier VCs.

Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, and business personnel. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.

About the Role

At KoBold, we believe that empowering geologists and data scientists with accessible mineral exploration data can ignite a transformative breakthrough in discovering vital energy transition metals like lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt. As a member of our software engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in bringing this vision to life. By crafting interactive data exploration web apps, you will unlock invaluable insights, streamline intricate scientific processes and foster new discoveries. Collaborating with our exceptional team of data scientists and geologists, you will have the opportunity to tackle complex scientific problems head-on and collectively pave the way for remarkable achievements. Together, we can shape the future of mineral exploration and contribute to building a sustainable world.

Responsibilities

The Full Stack Software Engineer will:

• Design and implement end-to-end to KoBold’s existing web apps that manage data upload, discovery, search and visualization.
• Develop new tools to support complex interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, interactive plotting and machine learning data labeling.
• Bring front-end best practices to our Django-templates front-end. Help to modernize our stack to standardize our UIs, prototype faster and deploy useful apps for our geologists and data scientists.
• Setup systems to automate the testing of our UIs.
• Use UX best practices to understand and empower fellow KoBolders with backgrounds in geology, geophysics, geochemistry and data science.

Qualifications

• You write production-quality code that is correct, readable, well-tested, scalable and extensible
• You are skilled with with data visualization libraries (ex. D3, Leaflet) ideally for geospatial and scientific data.
• You have experience with a subset of the following: modern JavaScript tools (node.js, TypeScript, React, etc.), modern deployment and cloud technologies (AWS, Postgres, Jenkins, etc), classic Frontend Development (HTML, CSS, etc)
• You’ve contributed to the full stack from designing and implementing backend models and APIs to building frontend components and architecture

Bonus Qualification

• You have experience with a Cloud-based stack such as AWS, Github, Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins), Kubernetes, relational databases (Postgres) and telemetry systems (Datadog)
• Experience with frontend automated-testing systems (ex. Cypress, Selenium)

A great candidate will also be:

• Excited to work on a wide range of problems, in a dynamic work environment, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools and scientific knowledge whenever needed
• Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration from technical experts who aren’t software engineers
• 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
• Self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work and communicate as one progresses

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

This position is full-time, exempt.

Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. 

The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $125,000-$170,000.