Kibana - GIS UI Engineer

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. Diversity drives our vibe. We unite employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

We’re adding more Geospatial capabilities to Kibana

Are you an experienced Geospatial JavaScript UI developers ready to build advanced GIS user experiences using Elasticsearch’s Geospatial features and are familiar with the UX concerns of map building, the API’s, components, and data formats that are commonly used in web GIS applications?

If so, we'd love to talk.

If you read this far and think, “that's me!” then you probably won't need to read any further and we should have a conversation. But if you are in any doubt the type of experiences we expect you to have then the following should help clarify;

Kibana is the window into the Elastic Stack

Kibana lets users visualize their Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack, so they can do anything from learning why they’re getting paged at 2:00 a.m. to understanding the impact rain might have on their quarterly numbers. Kibana gives users the freedom to select the way they give shape to their data. And they don’t always have to know what they’re looking for. With its interactive visualizations, users start with one question and see where it leads them. Kibana core ships with the classics: histograms, line graphs, pie charts, sunbursts, and more. They demonstrate the full aggregation capabilities of Elasticsearch.

Engineering Philosophy

Engineering a highly complex distributed system that is easy to operate via elegantly designed APIs is a non-trivial effort. It requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. At Elastic, we effectively don’t have a hierarchy to speak of. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on truly anything, regardless of his or her role within the company.

Responsibilities

• Innovate, lead and contribute to front end and GIS visualization experience of the Kibana and other UI products using JavaScript
• Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team, and documentation team to execute on product work

Skills & Requirements

• Experience in web mapping and spatial application development including web mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Mapbox, Leaflet) and spatially-enabled relational databases
• Experience creating highly visual web apps, using D3.js and similar libraries
• Strong JavaScript programming skills
• 7+ years of front end development work
• Experience with one modern MVC style JS Framework
• Experience writing automated tests
• Ability to work in a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Strong preference for operational experience
• Strong preference for knowledge of building complex data visualization and related tooling
• Strong preference for Open Source experience

Additional Information

• Deeply competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, disability, benefits
• Stock options
• Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
• An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
• Passionate people building great products
• Employees with a wide variety of interests
• Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
• Distributed-first company with employees all over the world, speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter :)

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