{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"48a8eef116007cfc2ed0ee2f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/48a8eef116007cfc2ed0ee2f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/48a8eef116007cfc2ed0ee2f","title":"Remote Software Engineer, Geospatial Data","description":"Civitech is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating a fairer and more equitable democracy by building the tools and infrastructure needed to increase civic participation, empower Democratic candidates to win, and support the success of progressive causes. Since our founding in 2019, over 500 partners—a range of nonprofit organizations, national political committees, and individual campaigns—have utilized Civitech's tools to reach tens of millions of voters to help create a more equitable and progressive democracy.\r\nCivitech is a remote-first company hiring within our current footprint of 27 states (AL, AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY). We maintain a physical co-working and collaboration headquarters in Austin, TX.\r\nIt is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.\r\nOur Core Values\r\nWe act with Integrity – At Civitech, we hold ourselves to the highest standards and value open and transparent communications with all of our stakeholders. Our rigorous approach to product design, testing, and data science leads to accurate assessments of our outcomes and challenges us to constantly improve our tools.\r\nWe are Changemakers – As a team, Civitech seeks to make transformational change in our democracy by eliminating obstacles meant to hamper contribution from every member of the community.\r\nWe are Collaborators – Buoyed by our mission, we look for opportunities to partner with everyone committed to making democracy easier to participate in. We seek to understand the challenges our partners face and use our skills and creativity to help them solve them.\r\nWe are Bold – We recognize that disruptive change won't come with doing business as usual. Civitech seeks to revolutionize civic participation by bringing innovation and creativity to politics.\r\nRole Overview: The Engineering team builds scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications that empower progressive organizations, drive civic engagement, and promote democratic participation. We work closely with product and data teams to deliver impactful solutions.\r\nThe Software Engineer, Geospatial Data position sits on our team responsible for civic and geospatial data and reports to that team's Engineering Manager. This team focuses on:\r\nTools used by our research team to collect and maintain civic and constituent data, including geographic and boundary data.\r\nOur GraphQL API product, used both internally and externally.\r\nData export products that provide civic data to customers.\r\nData engineering for our Voter Registration Mail product.\r\nOur work spans backend-heavy data products and internal UI tools where reliability is critical. A core challenge lies in evolving our API and data export offerings, thoughtfully advancing functionality and the developer experience while maintaining stability across existing contracts.\r\nWhat You Will Do\r\nParticipate with other engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of Civitech's applications and infrastructure.\r\nCollaborate cross-functionally with product, research, and data science teams to develop features from participation in requirements definition through to testing and documentation.\r\nBuild scalable, secure, and high-performing features in a cloud environment.\r\nCommunicate effectively with team members and contribute to an open and inclusive engineering culture.\r\nGrow your technical skills and contribute to effective team development practices.\r\nIf you were here today, you'd be:\r\nOptimizing data availability: Developing new features to automatically make election research data available in our customer-facing tools, reducing latency to our end users.\r\nBuilding data pipelines: Developing and maintaining pipelines that ingest, normalize, and serve civic data so it's reliably available to our tools and customers - including geospatial data like shapefiles and political boundary files.\r\nBridging data silos: Designing strategies to effectively and broadly share data between operational PostgreSQL databases and BigQuery data warehouses to enrich existing datasets.\r\nWorking with political geography: Reconciling census shapes against political shapes (precincts, council districts, legislative districts) and keeping that data current as new maps move through legislatures and the courts.\r\nImproving data quality: Diagnosing and fixing bad data - from malformed geometries to inconsistent identifiers - so downstream tools and customers get reliable results.\r\nAbout You\r\nYou have 3–5 years of software engineering experience.\r\nYou thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoy building software for the public good, and are passionate about democracy, civics, and politics.\r\nYou are strong in Python , especially for data pipelines, scripting, and automation.\r\nYou're comfortable working across the stack and picking up other languages and frameworks as needed - our applications are built largely in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/TypeScript.\r\nYou have experience working with cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform or AWS; experience with Azure is also valuable.\r\nYou are skilled in facilitating collaboration between engineers and with partner teams.\r\nYou are experienced with identifying issues and helping to develop solutions, including diagnosing and fixing data quality problems.\r\nYou are used to being actively engaged in planning the team's work via backlog refinement, helping to write user stories, etc.\r\nYou are practiced with written and verbal communication that helps make complex code accessible.\r\nYou prioritize writing maintainable and well-documented code.\r\nYou demonstrate the ability to effectively give and receive constructive feedback, especially with other engineers.\r\nAdditional qualifications (need some but not all): Our current work benefits from the below. Please keep in mind that you do not need to bring expertise in all of these to be the right candidate for this role.\r\nSpecialty: Geospatial & Political Data\r\nThis role has a particular focus on geospatial and political data, so experience in any of the following is a strong plus:\r\nHands-on experience with geospatial data - shapefiles, GeoJSON, projections/coordinate systems, and spatial joins.\r\nExperience with geospatial libraries and tooling (PostGIS, GeoPandas, Shapely, GDAL/OGR, Fiona, etc.).\r\nFamiliarity with political geography: precincts, city council and county districts, and state/federal legislative districts.\r\nUnderstanding of how census geographies differ from political boundaries, and the challenges of mapping between them.\r\nAwareness of the current redistricting landscape and how court-ordered and legislative map changes affect downstream data.\r\nDomain Knowledge\r\nUnderstanding of U.S. elections administration and/or campaign operations.\r\nEngineering Expertise\r\nProficiency in Python for scripting, automation, or data-related tasks.\r\nProficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (used within and without Rails).\r\nKnowledge of building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, including performing upgrades, using GraphQL-Ruby, Turbo/Stimulus, Rspec, etc.\r\nUnderstanding of API design, development, and usage, especially GraphQL APIs.\r\nExperience contributing to automated test suites and ensuring robust coverage.\r\nSystems and Data\r\nExpertise in PostgreSQL (with PostGIS for geospatial data).\r\nExperience working with cloud data warehouses, particularly BigQuery.\r\nKnowledge of building scalable data pipelines with dbt.\r\nKnowledge of scaling and high-availability techniques.\r\nInfrastructure\r\nExperience maintaining infrastructure hosted on AWS or GCP.\r\nExperience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, especially GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions.\r\nFamiliarity with Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code.\r\nWhy Work At Civitech?\r\nMedical, Vision, & Dental Insurance\r\n401(k) plan\r\nEmployee Stock Options\r\nEmployer-paid Life Insurance\r\nShort/Long Term Disability Insurance\r\nFlexible Time Off & Paid Company Holidays\r\nFlexible Spending Account\r\nParental Leave\r\nFlexible Schedules\r\nProfessional Development Stipend\r\nMonthly Office Upkeep Stipend\r\n$90,000 - $120,000 a year Status: Full-time\r\nCivitech is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time; all applicants must possess independent US work authorization.\r\nCivitech utilizes E-Verify to verify eligibility to work in the United States. This verification step occurs strictly after a formal offer has been extended and accepted, following the completion of Form I-9. Please find more information about our participation in this program here .\r\nCivitech provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or protected veteran status, in strict accordance with federal, state, and local compliance standards.\r\nNo recruiters or external staffing agencies, please.","company":"GrabJobs","rawCompany":"grabjobs","city":"Baton Rouge","state":"LA","isRemote":true,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T02:02:33.378Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.02","title":"Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians","slug":"geographic-information-systems-technologists-and-technicians"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541370","title":"Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services","slug":"surveying-and-mapping-except-geophysical-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Remote Software Engineer, Geospatial Data","description":"Civitech is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating a fairer and more equitable democracy by building the tools and infrastructure needed to increase civic participation, empower Democratic candidates to win, and support the success of progressive causes. Since our founding in 2019, over 500 partners—a range of nonprofit organizations, national political committees, and individual campaigns—have utilized Civitech's tools to reach tens of millions of voters to help create a more equitable and progressive democracy.\r\nCivitech is a remote-first company hiring within our current footprint of 27 states (AL, AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY). We maintain a physical co-working and collaboration headquarters in Austin, TX.\r\nIt is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.\r\nOur Core Values\r\nWe act with Integrity – At Civitech, we hold ourselves to the highest standards and value open and transparent communications with all of our stakeholders. Our rigorous approach to product design, testing, and data science leads to accurate assessments of our outcomes and challenges us to constantly improve our tools.\r\nWe are Changemakers – As a team, Civitech seeks to make transformational change in our democracy by eliminating obstacles meant to hamper contribution from every member of the community.\r\nWe are Collaborators – Buoyed by our mission, we look for opportunities to partner with everyone committed to making democracy easier to participate in. We seek to understand the challenges our partners face and use our skills and creativity to help them solve them.\r\nWe are Bold – We recognize that disruptive change won't come with doing business as usual. Civitech seeks to revolutionize civic participation by bringing innovation and creativity to politics.\r\nRole Overview: The Engineering team builds scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications that empower progressive organizations, drive civic engagement, and promote democratic participation. We work closely with product and data teams to deliver impactful solutions.\r\nThe Software Engineer, Geospatial Data position sits on our team responsible for civic and geospatial data and reports to that team's Engineering Manager. This team focuses on:\r\nTools used by our research team to collect and maintain civic and constituent data, including geographic and boundary data.\r\nOur GraphQL API product, used both internally and externally.\r\nData export products that provide civic data to customers.\r\nData engineering for our Voter Registration Mail product.\r\nOur work spans backend-heavy data products and internal UI tools where reliability is critical. A core challenge lies in evolving our API and data export offerings, thoughtfully advancing functionality and the developer experience while maintaining stability across existing contracts.\r\nWhat You Will Do\r\nParticipate with other engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of Civitech's applications and infrastructure.\r\nCollaborate cross-functionally with product, research, and data science teams to develop features from participation in requirements definition through to testing and documentation.\r\nBuild scalable, secure, and high-performing features in a cloud environment.\r\nCommunicate effectively with team members and contribute to an open and inclusive engineering culture.\r\nGrow your technical skills and contribute to effective team development practices.\r\nIf you were here today, you'd be:\r\nOptimizing data availability: Developing new features to automatically make election research data available in our customer-facing tools, reducing latency to our end users.\r\nBuilding data pipelines: Developing and maintaining pipelines that ingest, normalize, and serve civic data so it's reliably available to our tools and customers - including geospatial data like shapefiles and political boundary files.\r\nBridging data silos: Designing strategies to effectively and broadly share data between operational PostgreSQL databases and BigQuery data warehouses to enrich existing datasets.\r\nWorking with political geography: Reconciling census shapes against political shapes (precincts, council districts, legislative districts) and keeping that data current as new maps move through legislatures and the courts.\r\nImproving data quality: Diagnosing and fixing bad data - from malformed geometries to inconsistent identifiers - so downstream tools and customers get reliable results.\r\nAbout You\r\nYou have 3–5 years of software engineering experience.\r\nYou thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoy building software for the public good, and are passionate about democracy, civics, and politics.\r\nYou are strong in Python , especially for data pipelines, scripting, and automation.\r\nYou're comfortable working across the stack and picking up other languages and frameworks as needed - our applications are built largely in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/TypeScript.\r\nYou have experience working with cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform or AWS; experience with Azure is also valuable.\r\nYou are skilled in facilitating collaboration between engineers and with partner teams.\r\nYou are experienced with identifying issues and helping to develop solutions, including diagnosing and fixing data quality problems.\r\nYou are used to being actively engaged in planning the team's work via backlog refinement, helping to write user stories, etc.\r\nYou are practiced with written and verbal communication that helps make complex code accessible.\r\nYou prioritize writing maintainable and well-documented code.\r\nYou demonstrate the ability to effectively give and receive constructive feedback, especially with other engineers.\r\nAdditional qualifications (need some but not all): Our current work benefits from the below. Please keep in mind that you do not need to bring expertise in all of these to be the right candidate for this role.\r\nSpecialty: Geospatial & Political Data\r\nThis role has a particular focus on geospatial and political data, so experience in any of the following is a strong plus:\r\nHands-on experience with geospatial data - shapefiles, GeoJSON, projections/coordinate systems, and spatial joins.\r\nExperience with geospatial libraries and tooling (PostGIS, GeoPandas, Shapely, GDAL/OGR, Fiona, etc.).\r\nFamiliarity with political geography: precincts, city council and county districts, and state/federal legislative districts.\r\nUnderstanding of how census geographies differ from political boundaries, and the challenges of mapping between them.\r\nAwareness of the current redistricting landscape and how court-ordered and legislative map changes affect downstream data.\r\nDomain Knowledge\r\nUnderstanding of U.S. elections administration and/or campaign operations.\r\nEngineering Expertise\r\nProficiency in Python for scripting, automation, or data-related tasks.\r\nProficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (used within and without Rails).\r\nKnowledge of building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, including performing upgrades, using GraphQL-Ruby, Turbo/Stimulus, Rspec, etc.\r\nUnderstanding of API design, development, and usage, especially GraphQL APIs.\r\nExperience contributing to automated test suites and ensuring robust coverage.\r\nSystems and Data\r\nExpertise in PostgreSQL (with PostGIS for geospatial data).\r\nExperience working with cloud data warehouses, particularly BigQuery.\r\nKnowledge of building scalable data pipelines with dbt.\r\nKnowledge of scaling and high-availability techniques.\r\nInfrastructure\r\nExperience maintaining infrastructure hosted on AWS or GCP.\r\nExperience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, especially GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions.\r\nFamiliarity with Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code.\r\nWhy Work At Civitech?\r\nMedical, Vision, & Dental Insurance\r\n401(k) plan\r\nEmployee Stock Options\r\nEmployer-paid Life Insurance\r\nShort/Long Term Disability Insurance\r\nFlexible Time Off & Paid Company Holidays\r\nFlexible Spending Account\r\nParental Leave\r\nFlexible Schedules\r\nProfessional Development Stipend\r\nMonthly Office Upkeep Stipend\r\n$90,000 - $120,000 a year Status: Full-time\r\nCivitech is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time; all applicants must possess independent US work authorization.\r\nCivitech utilizes E-Verify to verify eligibility to work in the United States. This verification step occurs strictly after a formal offer has been extended and accepted, following the completion of Form I-9. Please find more information about our participation in this program here .\r\nCivitech provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or protected veteran status, in strict accordance with federal, state, and local compliance standards.\r\nNo recruiters or external staffing agencies, please.","datePosted":"2026-07-16T02:02:33.378Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T02:02:33.378Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"GrabJobs","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocationType":"TELECOMMUTE","applicantLocationRequirements":{"@type":"Country","name":"US"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Baton Rouge","addressRegion":"LA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"48a8eef116007cfc2ed0ee2f"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/48a8eef116007cfc2ed0ee2f"}}