Software Engineer (Execution Focused)
Strong preference for candidates based in New York City
Replica provides data about the built environment and ways people interact with it. With better data, human-context and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions. By showing how people live, move and work, we contextualize hard choices, allowing our clients to see around corners and understand the trade-offs surrounding their decisions. Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica’s insights lets clients make more informed, people-centered decisions.
We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 and recently secured series B funding from venture firms including Founders Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Sidewalk Labs, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Today, we are a team of 34 employees with offices in San Francisco, New York and Kansas City.
We value our customers, believe in being resourceful, and work in service of each other to scale our product. As we build our team, we are committed to pursuing and bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion. We value our differences and we encourage all to apply. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
The Role
We’re hiring a Software engineer to focus on developing our react-based web platform. This is a full-stack software engineering role in both front-end and back-end web application development.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement functional workflows that enable customers to process and analyze complex urban data, make data-driven decisions, and efficiently manage urban planning operations
Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs which use spatial context to efficiently query and aggregate nationwide geospatial and temporal data
Collaborate across teams to deeply understand users' needs, develop and evolve requirements based on user research, set delivery timelines, and implement and deploy urban data applications at nationwide scale.Work with senior engineers, designers, and product managers to define the team's technical vision and roadmap
Drive engineering best practices to enable a robust production environment and maintain an effective development velocity
Achieve uptime requirements and maintain API stability through remote logging and observability tools
Participate in on-call rotation; investigate and resolve production problems as they arise.Understand the urban data science context to ensure that correct, consistent, and meaningful functionality is delivered to customers
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
3+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer
Experience in web application development using a modern JavaScript client framework
- Bonus - Experience with our tech stack which includes: React, Typescript, Node, Mapbox, Python, Pandas, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
Able to identify when something is unclear and proactively seek clarification
Someone who doesn’t need constant direction — able to pick up tasks and run with them
Replica’s Product Vision
Replica builds software to enable users to make decisions about the built environment. This spans map-based analytical tools to more in-depth public sector workflows to future-focused scenario-based products. We’re constantly iterating on our core product, building new applications, and unifying all of these into a single, cohesive platform experience.In this role, you'll help bring these workflows to life by translating designs into fast, reliable front-end code — directly shaping the tools our customers rely on to make high-stakes, real-world decisions.
What We Value
We work in the service of others
We understand that talent + diversity + curiosity + relentlessness wins
We believe walking \> talking
We operate with thoughtful urgency
We communicate openly and directly
We build products people use
Benefits
Our people! We work as a team and are excited to contribute to city planning
Competitive salary based on experience and potential for impact
Equity at an early stage startup
Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and FSA options
401k account + employer safe harbor contribution
Offices in San Francisco, CA, New York and Kansas City
Flexible PTO
Compensation
Replica is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices
The base salary range for this position is $120K - $220K. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to relevant qualifications, depth of experience, skill set, certifications, training, education, and specific work location. The compensation packages may be adjusted based on the candidate’s work location, due to differences in the cost of living for the given location. Our position titles may also span multiple career levels
The total compensation package for this position additionally includes equity stock options, employee benefit package, 401k with 3% safe harbor employer contribution, unlimited PTO, and may also include other applicable incentive compensation and/or bonuses. For more information, visit https://replicahq.com/careers
Replica is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required
Ability to operate at both a strategic/conceptual level and at a detailed, operational level metrics driven; highly disciplined
Must have strong interpersonal skills, maturity and good judgment and be capable of communicating with a diverse range of individuals
A hands-on, action-oriented approach that fits well with the entrepreneurial, fast-paced culture
Engaging leadership style that builds and sustains credibility with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders
Broad functional experience in areas of strategic planning and marketing, sales and market development and planning
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above, but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
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