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Open Energy Transition (OET) is hiring a Senior Geospatial Frontend Engineer (Global | Remote | English)

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of a production-grade mapping interface, prioritizing interaction design, speed, and dependability as core features.
  • Develop professional-level tools for creating and modifying geographic features such as points, lines, and polygons, with support for selection, snapping, validation, history controls, and export capabilities.
  • Implement a reliable and intuitive styling system that enables attribute-driven color and size mapping, offers reusable style configurations, and maintains usability.
  • Optimize frontend performance for large-scale geospatial datasets using techniques like virtual rendering, background processing, and incremental loading to maintain responsiveness.
  • Design a scalable and maintainable architecture for managing complex UI states, user interactions, and tool behaviors as functionality expands.
  • Work in close alignment with product managers and designers, and engage with subject-matter experts to turn real-world workflows into intuitive, trusted user experiences.
  • Maintain high technical standards through well-tested TypeScript code, reusable component design, and established patterns that balance speed and stability.
  • Communicate proactively and effectively in a fully remote setting by adapting messages to different stakeholders, documenting key decisions, and sustaining progress with minimal meeting overhead.
  • Contribute insights from prior project successes and setbacks to help improve product development practices and team effectiveness.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Other

  • Fluency in English is required.
  • Occasional travel to in-person workshops or team gatherings is expected.
  • Expected start date is between Q1 and Q2 2026; exact timing to be confirmed.
Required Skills
React.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptUI/UX ImplementationPerformance Optimization
Job Details
Work mode Remote (Global)
Category Frontend
Posted 6 months ago
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Open Energy Transition (OET)
OET is building open-source, high-performance tools for energy and grid planning - software that helps system operators, regulators, policymakers and researchers plan faster, more transparent transitions to clean energy.
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