Senior Software Engineer, DroneDeploy
Full Stack
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Drone mapping & analytics platform
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Drone mapping & analytics platform
201-500 employees
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More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the power of interactive digital twins accessible and productive for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in full stack software development, with a proven track record of successfully delivering and supporting production-grade software
- Languages: Strong proficiency in TypeScript, with experience in Python. Experience in Java/Kotlin and Go is a plus
- Frontend Development: Solid experience with Angular (v20+) or similar modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js)
- Mobile App Development: Experience in Android app development is a plus
- APIs & Databases: Experience with RESTful and RPC API design, including authentication, versioning, and integration with external services. Experience with modern database setups, e.g. PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Testing: Strong commitment to software quality, with experience in designing and implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end testing) using tools such as Jest or Pytest
- Architecture & System Health: Familiarity with microservices, modular architectures, and event-driven systems. Dedication to maintaining high software quality through consistent refactoring, performance optimization, and reduction of technical debt
What the job involves
- Ready to revolutionize the sky? Join DroneDeploy's pioneering Aerial Capture team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
- This is your chance to architect and develop our cutting-edge aerial and robotics solutions
- You won't just be building software - you'll create the future of fully autonomous drone operations, scaling them across thousands of global jobsites in the coming years and placing yourself at the very heart of aerial and robotics innovation
- Here’s how you will make an impact: Coordinate the technical vision and take full ownership of the architecture to implement secure, scalable, and high-performance systems utilizing modern technologies
- As a hands-on technical leader, you will develop and test directly on autonomous drones and sensor payloads for field hardware integrations and data processing, while collaborating across teams and proactively leading technical design decisions to deliver scalable, reliable, and innovative systems, driving operational excellence
- This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced engineer to take ownership in the design and development of robust features and services in a remote-first, dynamic environment
- You will work daily with cutting-edge drone and robotics technology, empowering users to capture and leverage aerial and ground data
- Technical Leadership & Vision: Drive the technical vision and architecture for Aerial Capture, driving clean code standards, setting technical direction, and making key architectural decisions
- Hands-on Delivery & Project Ownership: Serve as a primary code contributor, lead projects end-to-end, and proactively coordinate work to ensure predictable delivery, technical quality, and the quick unblocking of teammates
- Mentorship and Technical Bar: Raise the technical bar across the team by providing hands-on mentorship, pairing, and timely, direct technical feedback to foster engineer growth
- System Health & Quality: Take ownership of system health, including reliability and maintainability. Champion the reduction of technical debt and measure outcomes to drive value throughput
- Cross-functional Communication: Act as the technical voice for the team in cross-functional forums, communicating decisions, trade-offs, and project status clearly to Engineering Managers and stakeholders
- Engineering Stack:
- Frontend: Angular v20+, TypeScript, RxJS
- Backend: Python (Tornado), Go, REST & RPC APIs, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Mobile: Cordova, Ionic/Capacitor, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Android
Our take
Drone Deploy, headquartered in San Francisco, is a cloud-based platform specializing in drone mapping and analytics. With a mission to revolutionize how businesses acquire, manage, and interpret reality capture data from drones, 360-degree cameras, and mobile ground robots.
The company is dedicated to staying at the forefront of innovation within the drone industry, and it consistently seeks out opportunities to broaden the horizons of its capabilities. The company's strategic acquisitions, such as Rocos and StructionSite, are pivotal in achieving this goal.
With substantial investments, Drone Deploy is well-positioned for further expansion, and has aims to diversify beyond the drone sector and intensify its efforts to build a strong to presence in Europe. In 2025, the company announced it had reached break-even, which bodes very well for its future operations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$15m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $157.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Workplace - We believe that people do best when they're happy at work. Whether you’re happiest working from home or want to join us in the office, it’s OK with us
- Great Benefits - It's important to support physical and mental well-being, so we offer the kind of benefits that help meet employee needs and those of their dependents
- Growth and Development - We're in a dynamic and innovative industry and we’re committed to investing in our employees to ensure they're growing, creating, and breaking new ground in their careers
- Work/Life Balance - Time away from work is important to recharge your batteries and enjoy life. We provide flexible hours and paid time off, and work with employees to support their priorities
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jono Millin
(Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder)Previously founded AdvertEyes, Zoomatelo, Infatics.
Michael Winn
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously served as the Tech Lead of Big Data & Tools and Large Customer Sales for Google. Also co-founded Zoomatelo.
Nicholas Pilkington
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded Luno. Experience as a Software Engineer for Toshibi and NVIDIA.
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