Software Engineer - Visualisation [Closed]
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If you are interested in our work and think you could add to our mission - let us know! Send us an email at jobs@diagonal.works.
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Location: Remote, Europe timezone.
Position status: Part-time, up to 4 days/week.
Salary: £52,800 for 4 days/week + pension contributions.
About Diagonal:
We are a data science consultancy, powered by our software. Our products are built for data science in the urban environment, to help understand the consequences of changes to our cities’ systems. We specialise in understanding large data and sensitive data. Our products unlock creativity, progress and better decisions in urban planning.
How we work is important to us. We work to uphold the right to the city, and approach projects with openness and transparency. We are making our software open source because we believe it is important that planning decisions don’t happen in a black-box.
Diagonal is a steward-owned company, which means we’re legally bound to both our mission and employee control in perpetuity. We are a startup that believes in sustainable growth. You can read our company charter here: diagonal.works/charter.
The role:
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of the built environment and responsible technology. We are a small, diverse team made up of individuals with various domain backgrounds and experience, which we see as a key strength. We work according to the principles of a Teal Organisation. That means we prioritise trust between team members and discussion based decision making. We value our supportive and inclusive culture. In addition to your work as a Software Engineer, there is space to define your role and involvement in different parts of the company.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help build our urban data analysis tools - with significant ownership over our new product. You will work closely with the rest of the team, but have significant control over your direction and approach. We take engineering inspiration from libraries such as S2 and D3, the work of Brett Victor, the approach of Teenage Engineering and the open standards work of Gehl.
This position is currently part-time, up to 4 days/week. As the business grows, you will have the opportunity to remain part-time or transition to full-time.
We have an open mind in terms of what experience and background a successful candidate may bring. However, your key responsibilities will include:
- Designing and building new components and systems within our Go and Javascript codebase.
- Working closely with our Design team to collaboratively build visual tools for urban system problems.
- Working closely with our Product team to map out achievable milestones for application development.
- Working with the technical team to break down project delivery into short-term tasks.
- Contributing to our open source software releases and blog.
A successful candidate will:
- Have built interactive, web-based, visualisations using libraries such as D3 - or be passionate about them and open to learn.
- Be able to work with bespoke backend codebases, and build novel systems in addition to composing existing software.
- Be comfortable working in a multidisciplinary and collaborative team.
- Understand the issues related to using data, algorithms and technology to shape the urban form.
- Be optimistic about the positive impact technology can have on society, while having views on how to manage that impact responsibly.
Benefits:
- 29 days paid holiday (including UK public holidays.)
- We are a remote-first company.
- We have a flat team structure, allowing you to design your role and contribute to ways of working from day-one.
- We support organisations that align with our goals. We are members of the ODI and OpenStreetMap. We will support membership to professional organisations of your choosing.
- While the economics of our domain mean we can’t compete with big technology companies on compensation, we do offer meaningful employee control and ownership, capped compensation inequity across the company and considerable flexibility.
How to Apply:
To apply, send a cover letter and your CV to jobs@diagonal.works and include “Software Engineer (Visualisation)” in the subject line. Please tell us why you are interested in this role, and how your experience would be a good fit.
