Geospatial Software Engineer

Essential Skills

• 3+ years’ proven experience in a GIS Software Engineering role, with strong skills in .NET, Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries.
• Experience designing scalable geospatial applications using AWS or Azure.
• Experience working with GIS platforms, geospatial data and spatial APIs.
• Knowledge of open geospatial technologies including PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, Leaflet, GDAL or QGIS.
• Experience with geospatial applications that integrate cloud platforms, AI, and Earth Observation data to solve real-world challenges
• Understanding of modern software architecture including microservices, APIs, serverless computing and event-driven systems.
• Experience working in Agile teams using Scrum, Kanban and test-driven development.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with experience working within multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience processing/analysing Earth Observation or remote sensing data.
• Exposure to AI, Machine Learning or GeoAI applied to spatial data.
• Experience with raster processing, vector tiling or spatial ETL workflows.
• Experience working with Geographic Foundation Models (GeoFMs), large geospatial AI models or multimodal spatial machine learning would be advantageous.
• Experience working within consultancy environments and engaging directly with clients.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Terraform.
• Understanding of the Government Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.
• Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other.
• There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.

Key abilities that are necessary for success

Personal Qualities

What You’ll Gain

Benefits

• Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
• These can include:
• We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• *Qualifying period applies
• Culture
• We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.
• We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.
• We are passionate about harnessing the power of location intelligence to solve real-world problems. Our work brings together software engineering, AI, Earth Observation, digital twins and advanced geospatial analytics to create smarter digital services that improve decision making across government, infrastructure, environmental management and critical national services. If you're excited by the future of GeoAI, spatial computing and geospatial innovation, you'll find opportunities here to work on projects that combine innovation with tech-for-good impact at scale.
• Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.