Spire

Front-End Software Engineer — Weather Platforms

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9 hours ago
Boulder, CO, USASenior
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Base Salary

$131k - $171k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build weather platforms combining asset tracking, interactive maps, time-series views, and operational dashboards.
  • Develop workflows for asset and route management, weather-exposure assessment, alert configuration, and alert response.
  • Present complex, changing data—including forecast uncertainty, freshness, and alert severity—in clear and actionable interfaces.
  • Use Claude Code and Codex to accelerate development, debugging, and testing while maintaining code quality.
  • Ship and operate production frontends, including deployment pipelines, error monitoring, performance improvements, and fixes.
  • Build reusable components and test critical workflows, accessibility, browser compatibility, and failure states.
  • Collaborate with product, design, scientists, and API engineers to turn ambiguous requirements into shippable increments.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of production software development experience with a strong front-end background.
  • Strong TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS skills, with knowledge of browser behavior, state management, API integration, and performance.
  • Experience building workflow-rich applications involving asset management, monitoring, configurable alerts, or operational decision support.
  • Fluency with frontier AI models and agentic coding tools, including the ability to explain shipped work and validation practices.
  • Experience taking frontends into production and supporting them through CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong UX judgment for data-rich interfaces involving maps, tables, charts, and detail views.
  • Experience with automated front-end testing and hands-on QA.
  • Preferred experience in weather, geospatial, aviation, or utility industries.
  • Preferred experience with MapLibre, Mapbox, deck.gl, live asset tracking, geofencing, route visualization, alert management, forecast data, uncertainty, geographic coordinates, and large spatial or time-series datasets.
  • Preferred QA or test automation experience with Playwright or Cypress and a portfolio of deployed products built with AI-assisted workflows.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring at least three days per week in the office.
  • Base salary range of $130,500–$171,000 USD, with eligibility for commissions and annual equity awards.
  • Employee benefits include vacation, sick and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage; a 401(k); wellness reimbursement; and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Global perks include satellite program participation, launch attendance, education assistance, employee assistance, family leave, fitness reimbursement, referral rewards, and office snacks and beverages.
  • Spire will arrange required US export-control licenses if needed; candidates do not need to have them before applying.

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About Spire

501-1,000 employees

Spire builds and operates a global constellation of small satellites that capture radio-frequency data to power maritime (AIS), aviation (ADS-B), and weather intelligence products. It sells data feeds, APIs, analytics, and Space-as-a-Service missions to enterprises and government customers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, Spire is a public company (NYSE: SPIR) with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia.

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