StreetLight Data, a mobility analytics solution provider was acquired by Jacobs in February 2022 – marking the company’s second strategic acquisition and building on its strong foundation of existing technology and #data capabilities.
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data to help transportation professionals and data analysts measure, analyze and improve transportation. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to location data from mobile phones, vehicle navigation devices and IoT, StreetLight sheds light on travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to optimizing new infrastructure to planning for autonomous vehicles, StreetLight powers more than 10,000 projects every month. StreetLight was acquired by Jacobs but continues to operate as an independent software organization.
StreetLight Data is seeking a high caliber Senior Applications Engineer to be part of our growing team. This team member will work on the back-end of StreetLight SaaS web applications (InSight Planning, InSight Operations) that our subscription customers use to explore and visualize travel patterns in the real world. This position reports to the Director of Engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain customer-facing features, including both frontend and backend components, in the StreetLight SaaS web applications (InSight and Construction) and their analytics data pipeline
- Interface among our San Francisco, Vancouver, Bangalore, Krakow, Eastern European teams, and mentor more junior engineers
- Deliver product releases and fixes to production as needed
- Write automated unit tests and participate in peer design and code reviews
- Collaborate daily with the other developers and QA engineers on the team, as well as with Product Management
- Productize analytics models from the Data Science and Data Engineering team
- Tune StreetLight InSight Planning and Streetlight Insight Operations for performance, scalability, and reliable operation to serve our growing customer base
- Assist Support and Operations in resolving production issues when needed, and improve the product to avoid them in the future
