Civitech
Austin
51-200 employees
Civitech is a public benefit corporation that builds solutions for candidates, activists, and local/state governments to improve access to government services.
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GIS Developer (GIS Data Engineer)
GIS Developer (GIS Data Engineer)
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Introduction:
Civitech works to create a more reflective democracy by developing technology and data products that help Democratic candidates run for office and win, empower progressive causes, and increase civic participation. We aim to make data and technology radically more available in service of strengthening our democracy.
Since our founding in 2019 our technology has empowered voter registration efforts led by political campaigns and advocacy organizations to register over 1M voters, and we’ve supported organizations across the progressive political ecosystem.
The GIS Developer will expand the geospatial capabilities of our applications and our analyses. Through this job you'll make CampaignOS more useful to candidates, campaign staff, and volunteers. Additionally, you'll help us understand Civitech's impact on the state, precinct, and county level.
It is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and maintain our geospatial data sets: primarily political boundaries, statistical areas, and address points with complex relationships and hundreds of attributes linked to our application data.
- Develop data pipelines for processing geospatial data from a wide variety of sources.
- Develop a geospatial data access layer for use by internal software products and by external partners and clients.
- Develop algorithms for clustering, regionalization, and boundary estimation.
- Define and monitor metrics for the quality and coverage of our geospatial data.
- Collaborate on meaningful visualizations and user interfaces for geospatial data.
- Track, evaluate, and contribute to technology advances across academic, open source, and commercial forums.
- Participate in political events that promote, train, and/or directly use our systems.
- Contribute to related tasks across the company, including technical architecture, product design, client support, marketing, and cross-training.
About You
- Solid knowledge of GIS concepts and techniques evidenced by relevant certification, relevant degree, or else 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience using geospatial tools in a SQL environment, such as PostGIS.
- Solid programming skills (especially SQL, Python, Go, and/or JavaScript).
- Experience with ETL tools (especially Airflow and DBT).
- Familiar with a variety of public geographic data sets and standard identifiers.
- Comfortable with the pace and fluidity of work at a startup company.
- Passionate about applying your technical expertise to help get Democrats elected up and down the ballot.
Additional Qualifications
- Basic skills in database administration (PostgreSQL preferred, but Oracle or MySQL okay)
- Experience with cloud computing environments (Google Cloud preferred, but AWS or Azure okay)
- Knowledge of scaling and high-availability techniques for data architectures
- Knowledge of statistics (including tools such as R)
- Knowledge of U.S. elections administration and/or campaign operations
The GIS Developer is on our Data Team, and reports to our Enterprise Data Architect.
About our Data Team: The Data Team aims to build the most robust database of information about voting-eligible adults in the United States available anywhere. Our datasets cover voter registrations, voter history, statistical scores, contact information, campaign goals, campaign actions, mail tracking, web tracking, advanced address & geocode processes, election-related maps, election results, and more.
Civitech is headquartered in Austin, TX. Austin candidates are preferred, but we are open to remote for the right candidate. All employees are currently working remotely until it is safe to return to our office.
Other Information:
Full-time, competitive salary ($110,000-$125,000 for Austin-based hires), commensurate with experience and location. Benefits include a company health plan with medical, dental, and vision insurance; four weeks paid vacation time per year; 10 days paid sick time; and a competitive company stock option plan.
Civitech is not able to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
Civitech provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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