Careers at Airdata UAV

We are building a talented team to harness the data from UAV flights and empower the growing wave of drone pilots and fleet operators. We have a high-performance culture: it's about results. We're all about the team: mutual accountability and mutual respect. We believe that a great workplace is great people.

Passion

Innovation

Curiosity

We're looking for people who are passionate about what they do, who take pride in our product, and are driven to ensure the success of our customers. We're looking for creative problem solvers who can translate technical complexity into elegant, intuitive solutions. We are a data-driven company, and are seeking people who love to ask questions of the data to find new insights.

Senior Mobile Development Engineer/Lead

Location: El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

Experience building apps on both Android and iOS platforms
Familiarity with native code on each platform
Experience through the entire app building lifecycle: from inception to broad adoption and rave customer reviews
Understand mobile user flow and come up with create ways to enhance it
Critical thinking to solve hard problems

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Design, build and lead the flagship apps on both Android and iOS
Define new mobile use cases and functionality
Work closely with the backend team to optimize API calls

What we're looking for:

Experience developing for both iOS and Android
Understanding of the native capabilities
Experience with the release process on both platforms
Experience developing for scale: API optimization and display techniques
Experience creating brand new apps and functionality
Ability to translate user feedback to an improved experience
Ability to work well in a cross functional, fast-paced environment
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

Building apps with instrumentation and data presentation
Customization of the default mobile map services
Real passion for learning new technologies
Drone fanatic (preferred, but we'll take enthusiasts too..)

DevOps Engineer/SysAdmin

Location: El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

Experience managing and scaling SaaS and cloud platforms
Strong Linux expertise - You're a Linux Ninja
Experience implementing JIRA or similar ticketing system
Know how to build brand new platforms and backend services
Critical thinking to solve hard problems

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Responsible for all aspects of our production environment as well as our internal systems
Work with R&D to implement horizontally scaled out compute and storage resources
Implement various monitoring systems with performance and availability in mind
Manage bug tracking, build and source code repository systems
Contribute to expanding and scaling out our backend applications

What we're looking for:

5+ years of experience in a DevOps or SysAdmin role
Expert in CentOS system administration
Strong knowledge in network administration
Fluent in Bash and Perl
Experience managing large MySQL deployments
Experience in building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining web services
Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Linode and AWS
Experience working with large databases and data sets
Ability to work-well in a cross functional, fast-paced environment
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

PHP development experience
S3 or NoSQL knowledge
Experience with credit card/paypal integrations
Experience with Google Maps APIs and geospatial analysis
Motivation to learn new skills, programming languages and technologies
Drone fanatic (preferred, but we'll take enthusiasts too..)

Senior Backend Developer

Location: El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

Experience building big data analytics environments
Knowledge of various distributed database technologies
Passion for data analytics - you're a math geek
Foresight to build scale for the future
Critical thinking to solve hard problems

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Develop and enhance our core backend product
Define and develop algorithms and applications to translate our data into flight intelligence
Improve the quality of the existing backend and develop new internal and external capabilities
Implement horizontally scaled out services, which allow thousands of concurrent pilots and millions of flights

What we're looking for:

Perl expert with significant application development experience
Bash scripting experience
Mysql expertise and comprehensive understanding of SQL statements, indexes and optimizations
Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Linode and AWS
Experience working with extremely large data sets
Ability to work-well in a cross functional, fast-paced environment
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

CentOS administration and familiarity with its limitations
PHP development and understanding of front end mechanisms
Experience with credit card/paypal integrations
Experience with Google Maps APIs and geospatial analysis
Motivation to learn new skills, programming languages and technologies
Drone fanatic (preferred, but we'll take enthusiasts too..)

Senior Web Developer

Location: El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

5+ years of development experience in PHP
Fluent in HTML, CSS, jQuery and Ajax
Strong with Javascript, HTML 5 and various frameworks such as Angular, React, jQuery, etc.
Experience with Bootstrap and responsive design
Experience with SQL based database systems, optimization of SQL statements for UI calls and minimizing backend load
Experience building large scale backend systems and very large sets of data
Experience building web-based interfaces for both desktop and mobile
Ability to visualize data in creative and intuitive ways

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Design and write code to develop our web services
Build applications using new cutting edge technologies
Improve the quality of the existing UI and develop new user-facing features
Drive UI innovation through new data visualizations
Implement horizontally scaled out web interfaces, allowing thousands of concurrent pilots and supporting millions of flights
Contribute to expanding and scaling out our PHP/MySQL applications

What we're looking for:

Self-motivated and ability to work well in a small team
Basic understanding of drones
Ability to work-well in a cross functional, fast-paced environment
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

A passion for flying drones
Experience building geospatial analytic apps
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as Linode and AWS
Motivation to learn new skills, programming languages and technologies
Experience working with various big data and IoT technologies

Customer Support Engineer

Location: El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

Experience in a customer support role in a SaaS company for complex technical products
An ability to quickly diagnose and triage issues from log files - you are the troubleshooter extraordinaire who solves the hardest problems and explains them in the simplest terms
Exemplary written communication skills both in terms of communicating with customers and documenting processes for scale
A passion for flying drones

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Help users resolve issues with using our service to get the information they need from their drone flights
Educate users about best practices and product features and training resources
Actively monitor and participate in our user forum
Identify and escalate bugs to our product and engineering teams
Monitor and analyze operational KPIs to improve our service and support.
Be the 'voice' of the customer to drive meaningful product enhancements

What we're looking for:

5+ yrs in a technical support role
Self-motivated and ability to work well in a small team
Basic understanding of drones
Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
Experience with Jira, or other ticketing systems
Ability to work-well in a cross functional, fast-paced environment
Bachelor's degree, preferred

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

Experience as a drone pilot, or in the UAV community
Knowledge in Bash and MySQL queries
Technical acumen
Experience supporting distributed cloud environments
Customers that rave about you

Community Manager

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or El Dorado Hills, CA area

Our ideal candidate will bring:

Outstanding writing and communication skills
Experience managing large scale community forums with global user communities
Understanding of how best to leverage social networking sites and related forums
A passion for flying drones

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

Manage our user forum, Facebook and Twitter activities.
Connect users to 'meaningful' content
Educate users about our service and capabilities across social platforms
Answer questions about our service, and escalate issues
Develop strategies to amplify our presence on other drone related forums and sites
Listen and engage in relevant discussions about our company and our market across all social channels
Identify and engage key influencers to increase awareness and advocacy

What we're looking for:

5+ years experience building / managing communities
Self-motivated and ability to work well in a small team
Basic understanding of drones
Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
Experience across all major social media platforms
Strong analytic-bent with great attention to detail
Bachelor's degree, preferred

Things that would make you stand out (Preferred Skills):

Experience as a drone pilot, or in the UAV community
Technical acumen
Content marketing experience
A track record of getting 'it' done

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