May 20th, 2013
OpenGeo is looking for talented people to join our team. We offer interesting technical work, competitive salaries, great benefits, and a fantastic working environment. Most importantly we challenge our employees to build the best open source and interoperable tools for spatial data on the web. We added a few new posts this week, if any look like a fit for you, please apply!
Here’s a list of our open positions:
UX Developer - We’re seeking a talented user experience developer to design and implement creative user interfaces for our innovative open source geospatial software.
Support Manager - OpenGeo is looking for a support manager to ensure that customers large and small are familiarized with our software, properly trained in its function, and supported if anything should go wrong. The ability to think quickly and communicate clearly in a fast-paced environment is essential. Enthusiastic problem-solving skills and a desire to be engaged at all levels of a problem are even better.
Software Project Manager - OpenGeo is seeking a skilled Software Project Manager to help us bring open source software to governments, commercial enterprises, NGOs, and other organizations around the world.
Java Developer - OpenGeo is seeking skilled software engineers interested in helping us bring open source software to organizations around the world. Our team improves the open source components underlying the OpenGeo Suite, allowing a wide variety of customers to share and edit data using open standards.
Front End Developer - We’re looking for someone who is ready to work with peers in design and engineering to create pixel-perfect interfaces across a range of projects and products. You’ll own the code-base, work on the hard problems, build your ideas into reality, and help determine best practices throughout our organization.
Sales Account Manager – Our current (and future) clients are looking to open source to solve their spatial IT needs. Our account managers help commercial enterprises and federal clients use our innovative, open source geospatial software as efficiently and effectively as possible, allowing them to get more than ever out of their geospatial instances.
Here’s the full list, please apply and/or spread the word!
May 15th, 2013
This week OpenGeo took an exciting and important step forward as an organization. We’ve taken on investment and spun out from OpenPlans, our long time parent organization, to establish ourselves as an independent company. Our growth and this successful step out on our own are the result of our amazing team and the success of open source geospatial software that we’ve been working on for over ten years.
Vanedge Capital, a Vancouver-based venture capital firm, led the Series A round of investment that made this possible. We are truly excited to begin a partnership with Vanedge, an innovative fund led by partners who know how to grow and manage software technology companies.
This investment provides the capital we need to meet our objectives and continue to develop innovative technologies. If you’re a regular reader of this blog or have seen us lately at conferences or events, you know about the ambitious projects we’ve been working on: through-the-web-processing, breaking out of the GIS work-flow with Spatial IT, geospatial web-analytics and distributed versioning for geospatial – to name a few. This type of development requires not just the strong technical skills and forward-looking leadership that our team has, but it also requires resources, which Vanedge’s investment provides.
This investment also allows us to achieve our long-planned separation from OpenPlans, which founded and incubated us. We are grateful for the support and vision of OpenPlans over the years. And, since OpenPlans remains an investor in our new company, we’re looking forward to our continued partnership with them.
Our mission remains the same: to build the highest quality software for location and mapping, available to all. This investment gives us a stronger base of resources to support the open source communities we work with. We remain committed to the open source principles of collaboration, transparency, and freedom. We’ll be doing even more to develop the best geospatial tools while supporting the open source communities and our customers alike.
Look for more from us about the future of Spatial IT and how we can help you get there.
Find out more about this important step forward and please contact us if you have any questions.
March 19th, 2013
OpenGeo is always looking for talented people to join our team. We offer interesting technical work, competitive salaries, great benefits, and a fantastic working environment. Most importantly we challenge our employees to build the best open source and interoperable tools for spatial data on the web.
Here are a few of our openings:
Project Manager - OpenGeo seeks someone with the firmness of an Army General and the tenderness of a Little League coach to help manage our developers on client projects. If “GET IT DONE” is your catchphrase, if you are a multitasking ninja, if you had your own Checklist Manifesto long before Atul Gawande put pen to paper, please apply!
Front End Developer - We’re looking for someone who is ready to work with peers in design and engineering to create pixel-perfect interfaces across a range of projects and products. You’ll own the code-base, work on the hard problems, build your ideas into reality, and help determine best practices throughout our organization.
Senior Inside Sales Manager – The biggest barrier to our sales growth is sales capacity. While that’s a nice problem to have, it’s still a problem! This is a great career opportunity for a seasoned inside salesperson.
Sales Account Manager – Our current (and future) clients are looking to open source to solve their spatial IT needs. Our account managers help commercial enterprises and federal clients use our innovative, open source geospatial software as efficiently and effectively as possible, allowing them to get more than ever out of their geospatial instances.
Here’s the full list, please apply and/or spread the word!
February 11th, 2013
OpenGeo is looking for talented people to join our team. We offer interesting technical work, competitive salaries, great benefits, and a fantastic working environment. Most importantly we challenge our employees to build the best open source and interoperable tools for spatial data on the web.
Here are a few of our openings:
Project Manager - OpenGeo seeks someone with the firmness of an Army General and the tenderness of a Little League coach to help manage our developers on client projects. If “GET IT DONE” is your catchphrase, APPLY! If you are a multitasking ninja, APPLY! If you had your own Checklist Manifesto long before that slowpoke Atul Gawande put pen to paper, APPLY! If you are none of these things but know someone who is, TELL THAT PERSON TO APPLY!
Senior Inside Sales Manager – The biggest barrier to our sales growth is sales capacity. Nice problem to have…that means this is a great career opportunity for a seasoned inside salesperson.
Sales Account Manager – Our current (and future!) federal clients are looking for the freedom of open source, and our account managers are the people who help them find it.
Here’s the full list, please apply and/or spread the word!
November 8th, 2012
Below you’ll find a fresh round of spatial IT job postings. We hope these posts help connect organizations seeking to develop and support geospatial technologies with the talent that knows the best ways to do so. Our special thanks to Josh Campbell for letting us know about the State Department job openings.
Job Listings:
- Lead Software Engineer, Forward Slope
- GIS Developer, Computech
- GIS Business Analyst, US Department of State
- GIS Developer, US Department of State
- Software Engineer, LMN Solutions
- Staff GIS Analyst, Telenav
- Java/GIS Developer, General Dynamics
- GIS Web Application Developer, Farallon Geographics
- Technical Writer, SAIC
- GIS Applications & System Administrator, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Project Scientist, NGA
- Senior Software Engineer, Columbia University
Added 11/09/2012:
As always, please let us know if we’ve missed any job postings, either leave a comment or email us and we’ll be sure to include them next month.
October 11th, 2012
As more organizations around the world realize the potential of open source and web-based spatial IT, our clientele, workload, and company continue to grow. All of OpenGeo’s accomplishments are made possible by our phenomenal team. Do have what it takes to help spread OpenGeo solutions farther and faster? Not sure? Check out the descriptions below, if you’d be a fit drop us a line!
Open Positions at OpenGeo
- Support Analyst – We seek the true ZenDesk Master. We’re ready to build out our support team with someone wicked smart and loves troubleshooting, educating, and closing tickets.
- Senior Inside Sales Manager – The biggest barrier to our sales growth is sales capacity. Nice problem to have…that means this is a great career opportunity for a seasoned inside salesperson.
- Sales Account Manager – Our current (and future!) federal clients are looking for the freedom of open source, and our account managers are the people who help them find it.
- Software Developer – We’re looking for the sort of person you want to sprint with, who writes the sort of code that you like to extend and support. Java, JavaScript, Python, Bash..these are a few of your favorite things. (Bonus points for Scala, Clojure, and Haskell…)
- QA Engineer – Like brushing your teeth, good development practices start at home. We want to hire an additional QA Engineer to keep our releases shiny. This person should enjoy breaking things in organized and exploratory ways.
- Recruitment Associate – The list above is only going to get longer. So we need a top-notch person to be an ambassador for OpenGeo in a big way. This is the lucky person that helps other people find jobs (at OpenGeo!) that they’ll love.
Spread the word!
September 20th, 2012
This month we’re back with a new set of job openings, including three of our own. We know that many organizations are looking for prospective employees that know how to develop and support cutting-edge geospatial technologies and want to help potential employees and employers.
Job Listings
- Software Developer, OpenGeo
- Support Analyst, OpenGeo
- Recruitment Associate, OpenGeo
- Programmer / System Analyst, Geocent
- GIS Developer, Computech
- GIS Developer, Novetta Solutions
- Geospatial Developer, Camber
- GIS Developer, Critigen
- GIS Database Developer, MapMyFitness
- Web/GIS Developer, GHD
- Lead Software Engineer, Forward Slope
The geospatial industry boasts wider range of professions than you may think, surveyors, analysts, software developers, etc. all fit into the category. We see that those software developers, and IT professionals with geospatial expertise have been finding their skills increasingly in demand. For more information on how the geospatial industry is evolving please see Paul Ramsey’s Spatial IT and the Spatial Web talk as presented at the 2012 FOSS4G North America conference.
If we missed any relevant positions, please share them in the comments or contact us and we’ll be sure to include them in in next month’s job board post. We hope that last month’s post helped connect someone with a new job.
August 16th, 2012
Are any of you looking for a new job? We know that many organizations, (included ourselves) are looking for talent that knows how to develop and support cutting-edge geospatial technologies and we thought it would be helpful to share the job posts that we see on a monthly basis.
The geospatial industry boasts wider range of professions than you may think, surveyors, analysts, software developers, etc. all fit into the category. We see that those software developers, and IT professionals with geospatial expertise have been finding their skills increasingly in demand. For more information on how the geospatial industry is evolving please see Paul Ramsey’s Spatial IT and the Spatial Web talk as presented at the 2012 FOSS4G North America conference.
Job Listings
- Software Developer, OpenGeo
- Senior GIS Developer, ICF International
- GIS Developer, Computech
- Software Developer, Life Cycle Engineering
- GIS Developer, NYC DoITT
- Science Fellow, NRDC
- Software Engineer/Developer, OG Systems
- GIS Developer, Multivision
- GIS Database Developer, MapMyFitness
- Lead GEOINT Analyst, NGA
There are many other opportunities for spatial IT professionals, if we missed any relevant positions please share them in the comments or email us and we’ll be sure to include them in in next month’s job board post. We hope that last month’s post helped connect the right applicant to an open position and wish you all luck this month.
July 18th, 2012
While the geospatial industry encompasses a range of professions—including surveyors, analysts, and software developers—those of you who’ve seen Paul Ramsey’s Spatial IT and the Spatial Web talk from FOSS4G North America know that we see a great future for software developers and IT professionals with an interest in geospatial.
Many organizations, including ourselves, are looking for talent that knows how to develop and support cutting-edge geospatial technologies. We want to help fill these positions by connecting prospective employees with job openings we’ve seen over the last month.
Job Listings
- Software Developer, OpenGeo
- QA Engineer, OpenGeo
- Junior Software Developer, OpenGeo
- GIS Project Manager, AppGeo
- GIS Web Developer, Geocent
- GIS Developer, NYC DoITT
- GIS Developer, Computech
- GIS/GeoSpatial Developer, Deloitte
- GIS Developer, RPS ASA
- Senior GIS Analyst, Telenav
- Software Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University APL
- Web Applications Developer, Kelly IT
There are plenty of opportunities for spatial IT professionals but if we missed any relevant positions please share them in the comments or email us and we’ll be sure to include them in our monthly job board posts.
July 13th, 2012
Last week brought big news for two companies we closely track: GeoIQ and GitHub.
Esri deserves a big congratulations for snapping up one of the most innovative teams in the geospatial arena. Sean Gorman and Andrew Turner are both strong voices in our community and we hope their presence within Esri will accelerate the pace towards more open formats and software.
GeoIQ and GeoCommons has been a source of inspiration to us, showing us how to make spatial information more relevant to a wider audience by recreating many traditional GIS workflows on the web. We also look to companies like GitHub that are focused on leveraging the strengths of the web to develop new workflows and methods of collaboration.
OpenGeo isn’t just trying to recreate desktop GIS on the web; we’re injecting “spatial” into the broader IT ecosystem. Those of you that have seen Paul Ramsey’s “Spatial IT on the Spatial Web” talk from FOSS4G North America know that OpenGeo is moving beyond GIS. We aim to continue and extend the path that GeoIQ has shown, offering continued choice and innovation in the geospatial market.
So another story that caught our attention — but that did not get as much notice in our industry press — was that GitHub has just received a $100 million investment from Andreesen Horowitz. Since its inception in 2007, GitHub has been a truly innovative open source company, building success from the ground up through a dedication to open source software and communities. We see GitHub’s success to be the result of the convergence of very important attributes that we seek to mirror, including:
What GitHub understands is that open source is more than a license; it is a culture, a new way of operating. GitHub not only releases as much code as it can as open source software, it also is pioneering innovative business models to build products that enable more open source collaboration for all.
While closed source companies continue to follow strategies that reduce software options, our focus continues to be on increasing diversity and choice by fostering open source communities and building tools that enable greater collaboration — all while simultaneously standing behind what we consider the best geospatial technology out there, the OpenGeo Suite.
