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Salary: USD 100,000 - 200,000 / annual
Vibrant Planet is a climate-tech platform that helps land managers, utilities, and community risk managers reduce wildfire risk through AI-driven decision support and scenario planning. The company combines fire science (via subsidiary Pyrologix) with modern software to power wildfire resilience and mitigation planning.
As an Application Engineer, you will build and evolve the core wildfire resilience platform and utilities platform—tools that help thousands of users design and implement mitigation plans. You'll work full-stack across Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, TypeScript, and Postgres with geospatial data (Mapbox, PostGIS) to turn fire science models into intuitive interfaces for foresters, fire districts, and utility planners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and ship full-stack features across the Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, JavaScript, and Postgres stack
- Work with large geospatial datasets (raster, vector, tiled data) to surface forest planning and treatment outcome insights
- Partner with Product and Design to scope and deliver user-facing workflows for land managers and partner organizations
- Own features end-to-end from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Contribute to platform reliability through code review, testing, observability, and on-call participation
- Collaborate with Environmental Analysis and Infrastructure teams to integrate geospatial models into the application
- Improve developer experience through tooling, refactoring, and documentation
- Mentor other engineers and participate in technical interviews
The role is fully remote and part of a mission-driven, early-stage startup backed by climate leaders including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, and Cisco.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications
- Proficiency in Elixir, including OTP
- Proficiency with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations
- Demonstrated ability to ship features end-to-end in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to scope ambiguous problems with PMs, designers, and domain experts
- Comfort working in a fully remote, fast-paced startup environment
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with Phoenix/LiveView
- Experience building geospatial or map-based applications, including interactive maps and spatial UI patterns
- Experience with geospatial data (PostGIS, GDAL, GeoJSON, vector tiles, Mapbox/MapLibre, tippecanoe)
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and modern CI/CD workflows
- Background in climate tech, environmental science, GIS, forestry, or mission-driven domain
- Prior work at an early- to mid-stage startup
