Location: Remote (at least 4h overlap with CET)
Employment Type: Full-time (80-100%)
About OPENGIS.ch:
OPENGIS.ch is a team of Full-Stack GeoNinjas offering personalized open-source geodata solutions to Swiss and international clients. We are dedicated to using and developing open-source tools, providing flexibility, scalability, and future-proof solutions, and playing a key role in the free and open-source geospatial community. We pride ourselves on our agile and distributed nature, which allows us to have a motivated and multicultural team that supports each other in working together.
Job Description:
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Django Full-Stack Engineer who loves open-source and ideally brings experience in geospatial technologies. The ideal candidate will work primarily on Georama, our soon-to-be-published open-source and QGIS-based platform for geospatial data publication. You will help develop and maintain Georama, as well as deploy it to clients infrastructures.
Responsibilities:
* Take an active role in shaping the long-term vision and roadmap of Georama, contributing ideas and technical direction alongside the core team.
* Design and develop significant new features and functionalities, spanning both front-end and back-end.
* Develop, test, and maintain Georama using Django, Python, and other modern web technologies.
* Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
* Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
* Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
* Contribute to and engage with open-source communities around our core technologies.
* Possibly: optimise deployment pipelines, including Docker and CI/CD workflows on GitHub.
* Possibly: provide technical guidance and support to clients regarding deployment and usage of the platform.
Qualifications:
* Strong experience with Django and Python in a full-stack capacity.
* Demonstrated commitment to open-source. Contributions, patches, or active community involvement are a strong plus.
* Proficiency in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
* Familiarity with geospatial concepts, web GIS applications, or QGIS is a significant advantage.
* Experience with Docker (Compose), Git, and relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL / PostGIS) required.
* Experience with DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines (especially GitHub Actions), containerisation, and deployment) is welcome.
* Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently as part of a remote-first team.
* Fluent in English. German and / or French a plus.
Questions for Applicants:
- What’s your experience with open-source? Have you contributed to any projects (submitted a patch, opened a PR, or maintained something publicly)? Please share a link.
- What is your favourite Django app? Why? Have you ever upstreamed a patch into Django or one of its ecosystem packages? Or have you developed or maintained a complex Djabgo-based application? If so, please share the pull request.
- Do you have experience with geospatial technologies, especially QGIS? If so, tell us about it.
- What did you last learn out of personal interest?
How to Apply:
If you are excited about this opportunity and meet the qualifications, please submit an application at opengis.ch/jobs
Join us at OPENGIS.ch and become a part of our mission to provide innovative open-source geospatial solutions! 🌍💻🚀
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