Principal Frontend Engineer – Geospatial, WebGL

🔥 23 hours ago

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Technosylva

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

<Technosylva> is a provider of AI-driven wildfire and extreme weather risk mitigation software that delivers real-time forecasting, predictive simulations, and incident management tools for electric utilities, fire agencies, and insurers. Their cloud-based products (Wildfire Analyst, Tactical Analyst, fiResponse) offer situational awareness, operational decision support, and risk quantification to help customers plan, operate, and respond to wildfire and severe weather events.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision and architecture of the frontend platform • Define the technical roadmap, design large-scale systems, and align technical goals with business objectives • Design and build high-performance, interactive web applications, including real-time 2D/3D and geospatial visualizations using WebGL • Set and enforce standards for clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-tested frontend code • Lead and mentor frontend developers, perform code reviews, and foster technical growth • Integrate frontend components with existing products, backend services, and REST APIs • Optimize rendering performance, memory usage, and load times for large and complex datasets • Troubleshoot and debug complex issues across browsers and devices; recommend and implement improvements • Create technical documentation for reference and reporting • Solve the hardest engineering problems and guide multi-team projects • Partner with product managers, executives, and technical leads to plan future software capabilities • Own software-related complaints and work toward solutions • Analyze data to identify potential software weaknesses or problems • Oversee initial software rollouts and updates to ensure smooth implementation • Participate in leadership meetings and contribute to corporate strategy • Lead the technical vision, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of complex software systems while aligning engineering efforts with business goals

🎯 Requirements

• Strong JavaScript (ES6+ / TypeScript), including event loop, memory management, closures, asynchronous programming (Promises/Async-Await), and language-level performance optimization • Experience building and optimizing real-time map rendering pipelines using WebGL, GLSL shaders, or frameworks such as Three.js, CesiumJS, or Mapbox GL • Experience processing complex spatial datasets, map projections, coordinate reference systems, and vector/raster tile streams • Deep expertise with at least one major frontend framework: React, Angular, Vue, or similar • Proven experience designing scalable, resilient frontend architectures and applying appropriate design patterns • Experience consuming and integrating REST APIs using design patterns • Strong use of unit tests and modern build/CI tooling • Experience leading, mentoring, or setting the technical direction of a team of engineers • Fluency in English • Typically 10+ years of software development experience with a strong track record of delivering large, complex systems • Exceptional ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and business executives

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive annual salary • Health insurance • Annual bonus based on company performance • Flexible schedule • Remote work options