The Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing maintenance of the software systems that underpin Geoimage’s geospatial and Earth Observation (EO) services, its client-facing digital platforms, and its internal business operations. The role translates complex spatial data and commercial requirements into reliable, scalable and maintainable software.
The role spans four connected domains: geospatial data processing and automation; customer-facing web and portal platforms, including the automation of imagery ordering and fulfilment; internal business systems and tooling; and supporting IT infrastructure. The Software Engineer frequently operates as the sole engineer on a given system, carrying it from concept through to production and ongoing support.
The role applies critical thinking to solve technical problems, works effectively with limited supervision, and contributes to high-quality outcomes across data processing, analysis, product delivery and revenue-generating client services. It requires a strong commitment to software quality, security and attention to detail, and a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new tools and approaches, including the effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
Web Platform & Digital Product Development
- Develop and maintain the Geoimage website and associated digital products as a full-stack engineer, covering templating, front-end behaviour and responsive design.
- Build interactive, data-driven product and service experiences that communicate Geoimage’s technical capability to prospective clients.
- Manage deployment, environment configuration, caching and release processes across local, staging and production environments.
- Ensure accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, mobile responsiveness and page performance.
Software Development & Engineering
- Design, develop, test and maintain software systems that support Geoimage’s geospatial data processing, analytics and commercial delivery workflows.
- Apply structured problem-solving and critical thinking to complex technical challenges.
- Own solution architecture and technical design decisions for assigned systems, including technology selection, and document those decisions.
- Ensure software solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned with business requirements.
- Estimate, prioritise and sequence work across multiple concurrent workstreams, escalating conflicts where priorities compete.
- Take end-to-end ownership of systems from requirements through development, deployment and production support.
- Integrate third-party imagery supplier APIs
Client Portal & Imagery Commerce Platform
- Design, build and maintain Geoimage’s client-facing portal, including the automation of imagery ordering, purchasing and fulfilment.
- Implement commercial logic in software, including area-based pricing, minimum order thresholds, supplier cost and margin rules, discounting, currency handling and GST.
- Integrate payment processing and connect order data to invoicing, accounting and CRM systems so that orders flow through without manual re-entry.
- Automate the order lifecycle, with status visibility for both clients and internal staff.
- Maintain and improve the existing portal: resolve defects, prioritise by commercial impact, manage risk, reduce technical debt and document inherited systems so they are supportable by more than one person.
- Design the portal’s geospatial user experience so that non-specialist clients can self-serve, including AOI drawing and validation, area calculation, footprint and preview rendering, and filtering by date, sensor and cloud cover.
Spatial Data & Technical Capability
- Work with spatial data concepts including raster and vector data, coordinate reference systems, projections and geospatial analysis workflows.
- Support the ingestion, processing, validation and output of large and complex spatial datasets.
- Build and maintain production geospatial pipelines, including format conversion and optimisation, elevation and terrain products, reprojection and derived product generation.
- Optimise processing performance and storage for large raster and vector datasets.
- Collaborate with geospatial specialists to ensure technical correctness and fitness for purpose of derived products.
Business Systems, Automation & Internal Tooling
- Develop and maintain integrations and automations across CRM, project management, marketing and document generation systems.
- Build internal tools that allow non-developer staff to perform technical tasks independently, including command-line utilities, configuration-driven pipelines, desktop GIS extensions and internal web applications.
- Design internal tools as maintainable, version-controlled, documented products rather than one-off scripts.
- Train and support colleagues in the use of internal tools, and gather feedback to guide improvement.
- Identify manual and repetitive business processes and propose automation opportunities.
IT Infrastructure & Systems Support
- Provide technical support to staff for hardware, software, accounts and connectivity issues.
- Administer and support internal infrastructure
- Contribute to infrastructure planning, including capacity assessment, hardware lifecycle, colocation and relocation planning, and phased cutover strategies designed to avoid service interruption.
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure, networking and connectivity solutions, including validation testing against business requirements.
Quality, Testing & Reliability
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to testing
- Maintain automated test coverage over business-critical paths, particularly pricing, ordering, payment and data delivery.
- Verify integrations against sandbox and test environments before production release.
- Identify, diagnose and resolve software defects, performance issues and data inconsistencies.
- Maintain high standards of code quality, documentation and version control, with a defined release and rollback process.
- Implement monitoring, alerting and error handling on production systems, and respond to incidents affecting client-facing services within agreed expectations.
Security, Licensing & Data Governance
- Design systems so that payment and sensitive data are handled within a compliant architecture, using tokenised or hosted payment providers.
- Implement authentication, authorisation, account management and organisation-level access controls for client-facing systems.
- Maintain logging, secure credential management and appropriate handling of client and commercial data.
- Apply secure development practices and address security issues in inherited code.
Use of Generative AI & Digital Tools
- Effectively use generative AI agents and AI-assisted development tools to support solution design, coding, testing and documentation.
- Apply professional judgement to validate AI-assisted outputs and ensure correctness, security and quality.
- Continuously explore new tools and techniques to improve development efficiency and solution quality.
Collaboration & Communication
- Work collaboratively with geospatial specialists, sales, operations, management and project stakeholders.
- Elicit and clarify requirements directly from business stakeholders and translate them into technical solutions.
- Clearly communicate technical concepts, limitations and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide technical input to client-facing activities, including demonstrations, webinars and proposals.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, documentation and continuous improvement across the organisation.
Key Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong software engineering skills with experience developing and maintaining production-quality software.
- Full-stack web development capability, including server-side and front-end development within a content management or application framework.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and building reliable interfaces between systems.
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript, with sound version control practice.
- Sound understanding of spatial data concepts and geospatial workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking and structured problem-solving.
- Strong commitment to testing, quality assurance and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively with limited supervision, manage competing priorities and take ownership of systems end to end.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable
- Experience working with geospatial, remote sensing or Earth Observation data.
- Familiarity with satellite imagery, analytics pipelines or derived geospatial products.
- Experience building transactional or e-commerce systems, including payment integration and order management.
- Experience with CRM and business automation platforms.
- Exposure to infrastructure, networking or systems administration.
- Interest or experience in machine learning and computer vision applied to imagery.
- Experience working in small to mid-sized technical organisations.
The role currently works across the following environment, which is expected to evolve:
- Languages and frameworks: Python, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS, Twig.
- Geospatial: GDAL/OGR, QGIS, Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF, PostGIS-style spatial data handling, Australian and global coordinate reference systems.
- Business systems: Zoho One, in particular, CRM and Projects, document generation tooling.
- Infrastructure: Windows Server and virtualisation hosts, network switching, backup and tape storage, UPS, cPanel and managed hosting.
- Suppliers: Imagery supplier ordering, tasking and delivery platforms.
Pay: $80,000.00 – $100,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
