Contractor Lead Software Engineer - Drone Imagery Services

About HOT and HOT Tech HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

HOTs technology team is focused on solving key gaps in the tech ecosystem allowing the entire mapping process to be done with community ownership and tools.

HOT focuses on an end-2-end mapping workflow which includes a suite of solutions one needs to generate/use geospatial data, from imagery capturing to imagery processing, digitisation (including machine learning feature extraction), field mapping to enable easy access and use of data.

As Lead Software Engineer on Drone Imagery Services you take the lead over the development of the Drone Tasking Manager, making it a flagship product for drone pilots to collaboratively generate high resolution imagery over a larger area, democratizing drone imagery generation.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive the product development: define priorities, lead the product development implementation, test with users.
• Continue the development of the backend API, built using Python and FastAPI.
• Frontend development of the DroneTM web-app, using TypeScript.
• Integrate more drone models
• Test the product in the projects in countries, with the support of local partners.
• Collaborate with and coordinate various contributors or contractors working on the product, steering the overall development and direction of the Drone Tasking Manager.
• Provide general technical advice and support to members when needed (advisory and ad hoc support).
• Help with outreach and help secure funding for HOT in a proactive manner.

Essential requirements/qualifications

• Passionate about technologies for the greater good
• 10-15+ years of demonstrated experience in software development, covering all aspects of product
• Rich understanding of the open data and open source technology environment as well as technology trends
• Experience in working with remote sensing products (working with raster data)
• Experience developing business proposals, TORs and MOUs
• Good communication, advocacy and negotiation skills
• Proficiency in working in English (additional languages are a plus)

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