Software Engineer, Server

The ForeFlight Weather Team has the vision of creating an industry-leading weather experience for pilots and aviation professionals and is looking for a mid or senior-level software engineer to help us achieve this. This person will be responsible for maintaining and expanding the data sets behind our weather-related content in ForeFlight applications and services. This role has a direct impact on mission-critical data that is used in near-real time in flight planning for thousands of pilots all over the world.
The team is looking for a technically well-rounded individual with a passion for weather and/or aviation that has a strong desire to build scalable and reliable data solutions that our customers can rely on 24/7. This role can be based at one of our three US offices or fully remote (based on state).
What You'll Be Doing

• End-to-end engineering of systems including identification of sources of raw weather information, implementing new data ingest and processing pipelines, and leading the development of functionality to visualize and interrogate those data sets
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to deliver features, fix issues, and improve the performance of the weather system
• Integrating third party service providers for weather data

Requirements
Required

• 3+ years of software engineering experience ideally with a focus on ingest and processing of geospatial or meteorological data
• Strong scripting and data processing skills utilizing languages like Python or similar
• Curious and eager to learn new technologies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred

• Degree in Meteorology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Familiarity with visualization tools and techniques for meteorological and geospatial data
• Experience in developing solutions for ingesting, decoding, and merging various formats of weather data
• Proficiency in geospatial data processing tools and libraries such as GDAL or GEOS
• Java experience (including Spring or Spring Boot)

Nice-to-have

• Pilot's License or Aviation Experience
• Deep understanding of AWS services, including but not limited to ECS, RDS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, etc
• Experience with large geospatial meteorological datasets, such as Radar or NWP output
• Understanding of RADAR clutter suppression techniques and data assimilation challenges

About ForeFlight, LLC
ForeFlight produces the best-selling iPad and iPhone app for pilots flying personal and business aircraft, corporate flight departments, and aircraft operators. Customers include individual pilots worldwide, Fortune 500 corporate flight departments, state and federal agencies, leading operators, the military, and leading aircraft OEMs. We have been in the App Store since its grand opening in July, 2008 and are consistently ranked in the top 50 grossing iPad apps in the App Store.
We are known for our exceptional software user interface design and responsive, customer support. ForeFlight Mobile, our flagship application, was named Aviation Consumer's 2011 App of the Year and received Flying Magazine's Editors' Choice Award for 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Why You Should Join:
At ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees, and we empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide ForeFlighters and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but not limited to the following:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
• Open PTO Policy
• 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
• 10 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave
• 4 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave
• Flight Training Rewards
• Tuition Stipend