Job Description

Details:
Stefanini is a 35 years established global IT services organization, headquartered in Brazil, sau Paulo. We are located in 45 countries with 88 offices across the globe with 35k employees and growing.
In India we are positioned at Noida, pune and Hyderabad .
Our services include AI, Sap center of excellence, enterprise services, managed services, infra, cloud, support functions, staffing and many more.
For more info to give on AI, you can also say about Sophie chatbot developed by us and we also do SaaS based sales.
In India we are stationed since 10 years+ md have 1800+ employees. It's a global brand with a work friendly culture where we believe in a healthy work life balance working style.
About the job
We are looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and expertise in Node.js. As an SSE in this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining advanced GIS-based software applications using Node.js to process, analyze, and visualize geospatial data. You will play a key role in building scalable, high-performance systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate geospatial data into modern web and backend systems.
What you'll be doing

• GIS Software Development: Lead the development of GIS solutions, leveraging Node.js to build APIs and backend services that interact with spatial data.
• Geospatial Data Integration: Integrate geospatial data sources (e.g., shapefiles, GeoJSON, raster data) into applications, ensuring accurate data processing and management.
• Node.js Application Development: Design and implement backend solutions using Node.js, focusing on performance, security, and scalability to process large geospatial datasets.
• API Development: Develop and maintain RESTful APIs that expose geospatial data and GIS services, ensuring smooth integration with other systems and frontend applications.
• Spatial Data Management: Optimize databases for handling geospatial data, utilizing PostGIS, MongoDB, or other spatial database technologies.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with front-end developers, product managers, and other engineers to ensure GIS features meet business requirements. Mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize GIS systems for performance, reliability, and data throughput.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Create and maintain clear technical documentation for geospatial APIs, services, and architectures. Ensure coding standards and best practices are followed.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in both GIS and Node.js development to drive innovation in the team.
• Support our products, identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own troubleshooting and resolution of production issues across teams.
• Own discovery, solutioning, monitoring, incident resolution - imbibe and socialize DevOps mindset.
• Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
• Embed a DevOps mentality within the team.
• Serve as a senior member for your team as needed or special purpose projects per business priority. Identify & own coaching opportunities.
• Stay current with learning current trends in technology and mentor and guide junior engineers and interns.
• Partner with Tech Leads, architects, engineers, development managers, product managers, agile coaches across the engineering practice in an agile environment, with scrum implemented at scale globally.
• Driver in continuous improvement processes through metrics and feedback. Welcome, change and complexity. Learn quickly and adapt fast. Be a change leader!

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Geospatial Sciences, Geography, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2-3 years focused on GIS applications.
• Strong experience with Node.js for backend development.
• Expertise in GIS technologies (ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, etc.) and spatial data formats (GeoJSON, KML, shapefiles).
• Experience with spatial databases (PostGIS, MongoDB with GeoJSON support, etc.).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development.
• Advanced knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Familiarity with geospatial libraries like GDAL, GeoPandas, Turf.js, or other JavaScript-based spatial libraries.
• Strong experience with version control systems like Git and agile development practices.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a focus on optimizing geospatial data handling and processing.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members.
• A proactive team player who thrives in a collaborative environment.
• 3+ years' unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks.
• DevOps mindset - 3+ years' experience in CI/CD, SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, operational metrics knowledge.
• 3+ years' experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork, and influencing skills required.

• NodeJS/ NestJS Framework
• Messaging framework (ActiveMQ/Kafka)
• SQL Server/MySql/MongoDB or Postgres
• Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS
• Dockerization and Containerization
• Reactive programming
• Markup languages like XML/JSON/Yaml
• In depth knowledge of version tools like Git/Bitbucket
• Expertise in GIS technologies (ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, etc.) and spatial data formats (GeoJSON, KML, shapefiles).
• Experience with spatial databases (PostGIS, MongoDB with GeoJSON support, etc.)

• Openshift/Kubernetes
• Open source contribution, repositories, personal projects
• Participation in communities of interest, meetups
• Certifications in technology, agile methodologies
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
• Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS