Development Seed is an engineering and design shop with team members around the world and offices in Washington, DC and Lisbon, Portugal. We’re a team of developers, designers, and product managers creating positive social impact with open tech and open knowledge alongside organizations like the World Bank, UNICEF, and NASA.

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Engineering open tech for global positive social impact with leading organizations.

We are seeking a Frontend Engineer to create impactful products that support partners at organizations like NASA in furthering their goals of making Earth observation data more accessible and enabling open science.Development Seed is a unique and rewarding place to do this work. Over the past two decades, we have honed our approach of stewarding projects from opportunity to successful, impactful products. Our partners are working on interesting and important problems. Our technical teams are built of curious, empathetic people with high intrinsic motivation and a growth mindset. We open source a lot of our work, invest heavily in R&amp;D that drives the field, and regularly reinvent the nature of our work.As part of this team, you will build frontend web applications to visualize, analyze, and communicate Earth observation data for NASA and other partners. Your primary contribution will be readable, maintainable code, but you should be comfortable leading frontend development and communicating ideas about design and usability. You will help us continue to be our best by making framework and architectural recommendations, writing reusable components and interfaces, and utilizing open source libraries that improve the state-of-the-art.This is a remote-first position with some travel opportunities. <h2>As a Frontend Engineer, you will:</h2><ul><li>Design and implement user-facing features in React and Next.js, creating intuitive interfaces for exploring satellite data</li><li>Build and maintain state management solutions, selecting the best library for the job, and writing custom hooks for scalable and maintainable application logic</li><li>Develop and optimize frontend components for geospatial data visualization using libraries like react-map-gl and maplibre-gl</li><li>Handle responsive design and accessibility challenges to ensure applications provide a seamless experience across devices and user groups</li><li>Integrate complex UI workflows, such as vendor data fetching and dynamic vendor filters</li><li>Collaborate with engineers on API design to ensure proper data structures and workflows that meet the needs of API consumers</li><li>Represent Development Seed in forums and meetings with partners</li></ul> <h2>About you</h2><h3>Requirements</h3>Qualified candidates will have:<ul><li>5+ years of professional software development experience</li><li>3+ years professional experience building robust frontend web applications in React.js</li><li>Core Technologies:</li><ul><li>Advanced proficiency in modern JavaScript with ES6+ features and patterns, TypeScript, and modern CSS frameworks (Chakra, NextUI, Tailwind, styled-components)</li><li>Strong understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility</li></ul><li>State Management &amp; Performance:</li><ul><li>Experience with state management solutions (Redux/Thunk, Zustand, React Query)</li><li>Proficiency in client-side and server-side rendering optimization, performance optimization and debugging, code splitting and bundle optimization, memory leak prevention</li></ul><li>Architecture &amp; Best Practices:</li><ul><li>Familiarity with component architecture and design patterns, clean code principles, and testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress)</li><li>Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG)</li></ul><li>Build &amp; Deployment:</li><ul><li>Experience with build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Babel)</li><li>Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and environment configuration management</li></ul><li>A track record of leading frontend projects</li><li>Experience with geospatial data and open standard APIs and data formats (STAC, GeoJSON, map tiles)</li><li>Experience with Git, GitHub, and project management tools</li><li>Strong ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and independently</li><li>A pragmatic approach to agile development methodologies</li></ul><h3>Nice to Have</h3><ul><li>Experience in web mapping with react-map-gl, maplibre-gl, deck-gl</li><li>Experience in data visualization with charting libraries, D3, etc.</li><li>Experience with backend technologies (Node.js, API development, Python, FastAPI), Docker containerization, Next.js, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)</li><li>Knowledge of web security best practices</li><li>Experience with analytics and monitoring tools</li><li>Understanding of UI/UX design principles</li><li>Internationalization (i18n) experience</li><li>​​Experience working on scientific projects with non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Experience leading technical meetings with external stakeholders and engineers</li></ul> <h3>As a Development Seed team member, you:</h3><ul><li>Collaborate — Working as a team makes us stronger than any individual developer. You write clear GitHub tickets and communicate effectively on Slack and in-person.</li><li>Learn — We constantly evolve our technology stack and techniques to deliver the best work to our partners. You don't need to know any particular language or framework upfront but you need to demonstrate you're able and excited to learn new ways to build.</li><li>Code — You write code focusing on both performance and maintainability. You write detailed documentation before and after writing code.</li><li>Respect — We are a diverse team spread across the globe. You value others’ perspective, voice, and ideas. You treat everyone with dignity and professionalism.</li><li>Care about the world and believe that we can do better — Social change is the foundation of everything we do. You are impatient about solving the world’s toughest challenges.</li></ul> We have a comprehensive 5 step hiring process, designed to be thorough and engaging to ensure that you and our team have a clear understanding of how we can succeed together:<ol><li>Application review</li><li>Introductory interview to get to know each other</li><li>Technical interview to talk about your skills for this position, prior experience, and answer hypothetical questions about how you’d approach future projects</li><li>Team fit interview to align with our team's culture and your longer term career goals</li><li>Paid full day virtual interview activity for you to collaborate directly with our team members</li></ol> Not sure you tick all the boxes? We encourage you to apply. We have a culture of learning, and if this job description sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.Development Seed embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Frontend Engineer

Not seeing any available positions that match your skills &amp; interests? Consider getting in touch via our general application. We may not respond as quickly as if you were to apply to a specific position, but we’ll keep your information on hand until the next position opens that’s relevant to you.We often announce openings for new positions, and will email you when a new opportunity comes up that fits your experience and interests.Development Seed embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

General Application

Development Seed is a mission-driven organization that believes in harnessing the power of Earth observation data to enable decision-makers to solve some of the world’s most critical challenges. We are leading advancements in fields such as machine learning and cloud infrastructure engineering to better enable our partners to address things like vulnerable housing susceptible to climate change or better understand hurricane intensity and wind speed changes in real time for better disaster preparedness. We are looking for an experienced Senior Accountant and Financial Analyst to join our finance and administration team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our Head of Finance and Revenue Accounting &amp; Operations Lead, and perform global accounting transactions and financial/accounting analysis, establish finance processes, and financial reporting that supports the organization. You will play a pivotal role in evolving our accounting and finance practices as our global business continues to expand. Development Seed is uniquely set up with a distributed team of remote staff and satellite offices around the world.<h3>About You:</h3>In this role, you will have the opportunity to put into practice a wide range of accounting and finance practices.  You will oversee all expense-related activities at the organization; you will perform financial analysis and will be responsible for closing the books monthly, preparing account analysis, and producing financial statements.  You will perform a combination of structured and repetitive tasks.  You will contribute to better defining our processes and find solutions to accounting strategy and management challenges.You are motivated to create and improve workflows, you take initiative and you are proactive in seeking answers and solutions. You like autonomy, but also appreciate collaboration with the team. You are looking for an opportunity to apply your accounting and finance knowledge, augment your skill set and lead out your area of oversight.Specifically, you are:<ul><li>Highly organized and able to juggle several tasks at once through thoughtful prioritization with an eye towards timeliness in task completion</li><li>Flexible and adapt quickly to the changing needs of a small team and willing to step in where needed</li><li>Process-oriented and detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li><li>Forward-looking and anticipate ways to improve systems and processes in place</li><li>A strong communicator comfortable in both in-person and async communications </li><li>A contributor and a learner - this is an opportunity for someone who would like to contribute in a meaningful way and augment their learning in a cross-section of accounting, finance, and operations within a small team environment.</li><li>Ownership mentality - we value and empower autonomy and agency. or you take initiative, demonstrating autonomy and agency in your work.</li><li>You value teamwork and collaboration - motivated by supporting team members and developing great work relationships.</li></ul>You have:<ul><li>Specialized studies in accounting, finance, or related fields</li><li>3+ years of intermediate to advanced level of knowledge and experience in accounting (required)</li><li>You know your way around a chart of accounts, with journal entries, and with financial statements and analyses; solid knowledge of U.S. GAAP</li><li>DCAA and/or government accounting knowledge and experience is preferred</li><li>You have experience using financial and team collaboration/management software (ie Quickbooks, ERP’s, bank feeds, treasury management, G-Suite, GitHub, Slack, Hubspot, etc)</li></ul>You ideally have experience:<ul><li>With international accounting and consolidating books (preferred)</li><li>Implementing accounting systems (preferred)</li><li>Working in small fast moving teams and decentralized management structures  </li><li>Coordinating across multiple time zones</li></ul><h3>We are looking for a team member to perform:</h3><ul><li>Financial analysis and reporting - accounting with our Lisbon subsidiary including consolidation, financial analysis, monthly financial reports, and cash forecasting </li><li>Expense support – hands-on management of accounts payable, bank feeds and reconciliations, merchant card activity, cost control and expense monitoring,</li><li>Policy and Process - perform accounting, finance, and operations policy and process updates and improvements.  Integral role in implementing a new accounting and time recording system.</li><li>Operational support – perform operational tasks in support of the team that may include travel oversight and financial proposal preparation.</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>The Team:</h3>Our Finance &amp; Administration team, a sub-team within the larger Operations Team, is composed of three team members of which you will be a part.  The larger Operations Team is made up of multi-disciplinary professionals who serve as the organization’s connective tissue. We work in a flat management style rooted in cross-collaboration and continuous communication to collaborate closely together and work hand-in-hand with our technical talent to grow a successful company. We work cross-collaboratively to drive strategic and operational initiatives that scale the business while ensuring our ever-evolving culture is grounded in our values. Ultimately, Operations is responsible for scaling the impact of our talented team so our partners across the globe have the tools and data they need to improve the planet.<h3> Benefits: </h3>The pay range for this role is $90,000 to $125,000 commensurate with experience.We want people to thrive at Development Seed. We believe you do your best work when you feel your best. Take a look at our benefits on <a href="https://developmentseed.org/careers">our career page</a>.Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, and location. <h3>As a Development Seed team member, you:</h3><ul><li>Respect — We are a diverse team spread across the globe. You value other’s perspective, voice, and ideas. You treat everyone with dignity and professionalism.</li><li>Collaborate — Working as a team makes us stronger, and you communicate effectively on Slack, over email, and in-person, and know when to use each.</li><li>Learn — We constantly iterate how we handle processes across the organization. You need to demonstrate you’re able and excited to learn new ways of doing things, but you also know that sometimes keeping it simple works best. </li><li>Care about the world and believe that we can do better — Social change is the foundation of everything we do. You are impatient about solving the world’s toughest challenges.</li></ul>Not sure you tick all the boxes? We encourage you to apply. We have a culture of learning, and if this job description sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.Development Seed embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Senior Accountant and Financial Analyst

We have established a great partnership with NASA around our shared commitment to advance open science in the cloud, push the boundaries of AI-driven Earth science, and build tools that magnify the impact of publicly funded research and data.We are seeking an experienced project management professional to play a leading role in developing our partnership and ensuring success in our joint activities. This role will focus on managing cross-project coordination, stakeholder relationships, and project direction for major projects with NASA and partners.We are looking for someone who is proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently with minimal supervision. This person ensures that our technical expertise is incorporated into project strategy, that we understand what project success means to key stakeholders, and that we achieve this success. Experience working on projects in the government sector and/or research and development in geospatial technologies or natural sciences would be an asset for efficient communication and translation between scientific and engineering concerns. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of project management principles and practices, software development and data engineering, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills.Development Seed is a unique and rewarding place to do this work. Over the past two decades, we have honed our approach to stewarding projects from opportunity to successful, impactful products. Our partners are working on exciting and important problems. Our technical teams are built of curious, empathetic people with high intrinsic motivation and individual agency. We open-source a lot of our work, invest heavily in research and development that drives the field, and regularly reinvent the nature of our work.This is a remote-first position with some required travel opportunities. You must have U.S. Central Time friendly working hours and be able to travel at least once per year to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and occasionally meet our partners at key conferences. You’ll be working with our NASA partners in US time zones while also collaborating with our global team. <h2>As a Technical Project Lead, you will:</h2><ul><li>Coordinate between NASA stakeholders, project teams, program managers, and technical experts</li><li>Oversee the overall project scope, objectives, and timelines</li><li>Provide project direction to engineering teams and ensure they have the necessary resources and support</li><li>Represent Development Seed in forums and meetings with NASA and partners</li><li>Develop a shared understanding of success with our stakeholders and track that we achieve it</li><li>Build relationships with key stakeholders and leverage them for maximizing project outcome and long-term success</li></ul><h2> </h2><h2>About you</h2><h3>Requirements</h3>Qualified candidates will have:<ul><li>Experience in technical project or program management</li><li>Experience with natural sciences and research</li><li>Experience working on large-scale projects that involve collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including government agencies or other large organizations, contractors, and cross-functional teams</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team as well as independently</li><li>Work schedule in a US time zone, and willingness to travel to Huntsville, Alabama at least once a year and attend key events like the <a href="https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting">AGU annual meeting</a></li><li>Knowledge of software engineering principles and practices</li><li>A pragmatic sense towards agile development methodologies</li></ul><h3>Nice to Have</h3><ul><li>Prior experience working as a software engineer</li><li>Experience with implementing project management tooling and processes</li><li>Familiarity with our partner organizations in the cloud-native geospatial space like Pangeo Forge, Microsoft Planetary Computer, AWS Open Data, Google Earth Engine, Earthmover, Carbonplan, 2i2c</li><li>Activity in relevant open source tech communities and conferences like Pangeo, ESIP, IGARSS, FOSS4G, AGU</li></ul> <h2>As a Development Seed team member, you:</h2><ul><li>Collaborate — Working as a team makes us stronger than any individual developer. You write clear GitHub tickets and communicate effectively on Slack and in person.</li><li>Learn — We constantly evolve our technology stack and techniques to deliver the best work to our partners. You don't need to know any particular language or framework upfront, but demonstrate that you're able and excited to learn new building methods.</li><li>Code — You write code that focuses on performance and maintainability. You also write detailed documentation before and after writing code.</li><li>Care about the world and believe that we can do better — Social change is the foundation of everything we do. You are impatient about solving the world’s toughest challenges.</li></ul> Are you not sure you tick all the boxes? We encourage you to apply. We have a culture of learning, and if this job description sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you. We have a comprehensive 5 step hiring process, designed to be thorough and engaging to ensure that you and our team have a clear understanding of how we can succeed together:<ol><li>Application review</li><li>Introductory interview to get to know each other</li><li>Technical interview to talk about your skills for this position, prior experience, and answer hypothetical questions about how you’d approach future projects</li><li>Team fit interview to align with our team's culture and your longer term career goals</li><li>Paid full day virtual interview activity for you to collaborate directly with our team members</li></ol> Development Seed earnestly embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

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