GIS Software Developer

Navigraph is currently looking for a GIS Developer to join our GIS team in central Stockholm. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to work in a developer team in a mid-size company, serving a large and passionate user base worldwide. 🌍✈️

About Navigraph

Navigraph is a SaaS company that provides aviation fans and aspiring pilots with charts, navigation data, flight-planning tools, and training materials. Our users fly everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator to X-Plane. With our Electronic Flight Bag, virtual avionics, flight planning tools, performance calculators, and teaching material, we’re the trusted co-pilot for any serious virtual aviator.

We have specialized GIS data pipelines based on TypeScript, Python and Rust and a modern tech stack for our main apps based on React and React Native. Our mission? To make flight simulation as realistic and immersive as possible by making data, software, and tools like those available to the aviation industry accessible for flight simulation gaming.

With our HQ in Stockholm and a global crew of nearly 60 aviation-loving professionals, led by our founders Magnus Axholt (CEO) and Stephen O’Connell (CTO), our team thrives on creativity, experimentation, and collaboration. Join us, and you’ll discover a vibrant community, a thriving business, and a workplace where innovation takes off every day.

Check out our career site for more information on who we are ✨.

What We’re Looking For!

We need someone with experience in both GIS and full-stack development who loves solving challenges and writing clean and efficient code.

Required Skills

• 3+ years in a GIS software developer role

• Experience with Mapbox Style Specification, Geospatial SQL, and tools like QGIS

• A knack for open-source tools in the context of geographical data and OpenStreetMap (OSM)

• Experience with backend development in TypeScript, Node.JS

• Experience with Postgres/PostGIS, Python (NumPy, Rasterio, GDAL) and Shell scripting

• Experience with cloud and infrastructure: AWS, Docker, and CI/CD

• Fluent in written and spoken English

Bonus Skills

• Experience with development in React.js, React Native, Leaflet, or GraphQL

• 3D modeling

• GRIB files

Who You Are:

• Passionate about cartography, aviation, or flight simulation

• Friendly and communicative

• Obsessed with detail

• Creative! Always eager to learn and improve

What You Could Be Doing!

As a GIS developer at Navigraph, you'll develop the GIS data pipeline powering our maps and contribute to our Navigraph Charts app. From aeronautical data to weather patterns, you’ll transform raw data into vector and raster tiles that support aviation dreams worldwide. Your work will even be featured directly in Microsoft Flight Simulator!

• Building data pipelines end to end: Ingest raster and vector sources into PostGIS, transform them, and push them all the way out to the apps. Example: write a script that automatically fetches magnetic declination data, imports it, and keeps it up to date without anyone having to touch it.

• Process raster information into vector data: For example, transform rasterized magnetic declination data into isolines on vector tiles.

• Making maps that look great: Turn dense vector layers into maps that are clear at a glance and a pleasure to look at. Example: design a wind visualization that makes a global forecast feel alive, the kind of layer people screenshot and share.

• Generate and serve tiles at scale: Produce slippy-map tiles for web and in-sim clients, and ensure they're delivered quickly and cost-effectively via our AWS infrastructure.

• Automate data updates: Avoid repetitive work! Make the infrastructure handle all the updates from the source data down to the apps.

• Shipping features users will notice: Deliver map capabilities directly into Navigraph products, and see them in the hands of the community within weeks.

• Designing APIs: Build endpoints that feed both our own apps and third-party developers building on the Navigraph platform.

• Prototyping what's next: Explore and evaluate new data sources, rendering techniques, and tooling. Weather radar, terrain and obstacle data, satellite imagery, 3D, whatever moves aviation visualization forward. Many of our shipped features started as experiments in this team.

• Collaborating closely: Within the team and with other engineering teams, Product, Design, and Tech Leads to keep the platform moving in the right direction.

What We Offer!

Navigraph is built on an open, caring culture where people genuinely come first. The structure is flat, leadership is hands-on, and flexibility is based on trust. Innovation and creativity aren't just tolerated, they're expected. You'll join a team that genuinely enjoys what they do and takes pride in setting the standard for what flight simulation tools can be.

• Flexible work options: On-site and hybrid

• A great benefits package: please check out our career site.

• Growth opportunities: We’ll support your professional development and provide the resources you need to excel.

• Memorable experiences: The Navigraph team is a tight-knit group with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We enjoy spending time together, and our annual work trips are always combined with team-building activities that leave lasting impressions!

How to Join the Team?

We’re reviewing applications quickly - so don’t leave us hanging too long! 🚀✈️ Apply now and help us take Navigraph - and flight simulation - to the next level!