Senior Software Engineer (Location Services)

Cotality • Austin, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Cotality is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with geospatial expertise to join its Location Services team. The role designs, builds, and maintains scalable, reliable, high-performance location-based services and geospatial capabilities supporting critical workflows. The engineer works with strong technical autonomy, owns complex geospatial features and services from conception through production, and collaborates with Principal Engineers, product managers, and partner engineering teams.

This is a hybrid position based at one of Cotality’s US offices in Dallas, Austin, Irvine, or San Diego, with one day per week in the office and four days working from home. The role includes designing and developing backend services and APIs, owning delivery of geospatial components and microservices, collaborating across teams, supporting production operations, and mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience and a strong track record of delivering production backend systems.
• Demonstrated hands-on geospatial experience.
• Prior production experience building or working on location-based services, mapping platforms, or spatial data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and RESTful or gRPC APIs.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, or Go.
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications, such as on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with real-time or near-real-time location processing pipelines.
• Familiarity with geospatial tooling and standards such as GDAL, GeoServer, OGC standards, or GeoJSON.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with asynchronous messaging and data streaming such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
• Experience with performance tuning, load testing, and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, low-latency, highly available backend services within the Location Services platform.
• Lead component-level design of geospatial features and APIs and contribute to broader architectural discussions.
• Apply geospatial expertise to data modeling, spatial indexing, querying, and processing; write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Evaluate and adopt tools, libraries, and patterns that improve team productivity and service performance.
• Own end-to-end delivery of geospatial components, features, and microservices, from technical specification through production deployment.
• Break complex requirements into scoped engineering tasks, estimate effort, and manage technical risks.
• Ensure solutions meet standards for performance, location accuracy, data quality, reliability, and security.
• Contribute technical feasibility assessments and feedback to team roadmap planning.
• Partner with product managers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver location-based capabilities.
• Support partner engineering teams integrating with Location Services APIs through documentation and technical guidance.
• Resolve cross-service integration challenges.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to maintain availability and fault tolerance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and conduct root-cause analyses.
• Champion automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability engineering practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews; share geospatial best practices.
• Maintain high standards for engineering rigor, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Promote a collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on continuous improvement and customer impact.

Benefits

• Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays, plus well-being and volunteer time off.
• Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
• Multiple medical plan options with mental health and wellness support offerings.
• 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year.
• $400 annual well-being stipend.
• Tuition assistance up to $5,250.
• Recognition rewards, referral bonuses, and exclusive discounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed