Frontend Software Engineer

KoBold Metals is a scientific mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company focused on discovering critical minerals using artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. The Frontend Software Engineer will build and improve web applications for data upload, discovery, search, and visualization, while collaborating with scientists on interactive 2D/3D geospatial tools, strengthening frontend standards, and automating UI testing.

Responsibilities:

• Build intuitive and elegant user experiences to empower fellow KoBolders with backgrounds in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and data science
• Own and improve KoBold’s existing web apps that manage data upload, discovery, search, and visualization
• Collaborate with scientists to architect new tools to support complex, interactive 2D/3D geospatial visualizations, plotting, and data labeling
• Champion frontend best practices. Modernize our stack to standardize our UIs, prototype faster, and deploy useful apps for our geologists and data scientists. Mentor junior developers
• Setup systems to automate the testing of our UIs

Requirements:

• Qualifications:

• Experience in architecting, developing, and maintaining frontend applications that provide a rich user experience.
• Experience in writing production-quality code that is correct, performant, scalable, and extensible.
• Skilled with data visualization libraries (D3, Leaflet, etc).
• Experience with the following: modern JavaScript tools (node.js, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc), modern deployment and cloud technologies, Python web frameworks (Django, Panel, Flask, etc), and classic frontend development (HTML, CSS, etc)

• Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with geospatial data and building map-based experiences.
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms, such as Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with frontend automated-testing systems (Cypress, Selenium, etc)