Senior Software Engineer

Nearmap is the Australian-founded, global tech pioneer innovating the location intelligence game. Customers rely on Nearmap for consistent, reliable, high-resolution imagery, insights, and answers to create meaningful change in the world and propel industries forward.

Harnessing its own patented camera systems, imagery capture, AI, geospatial tools, and advanced SaaS platforms, Nearmap stands as the definitive source of truth that shapes the livable world

Job Description

Join Nearmap's API team in our new Warsaw engineering hub, working on a platform that processes petabytes of aerial imagery, powers advanced AI models, and delivers real-time geospatial insights to customers worldwide.

You'll design and implement scalable solutions spanning data ingestion, processing, and intelligent delivery through APIs — pushing the boundaries of performance and innovation in high-resolution imagery and geospatial data systems.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in backend technologies including Go
• Deep understanding of API design, cloud-native architectures (such as microservices, containers, events) preferably on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
• Experience with distributed storage or content delivery.
• Proven experience leading backend engineering teams delivering scalable, production-grade APIs and platform services.
• Demonstrated success in building and maintaining distributed systems and data-access platforms in a cloud environment.
• Empathetic and inclusive leader with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and committed to high standards of technical excellence.
• Comfortable working across time zones and distributed teams.
• Comfortable making well-informed trade-offs between product delivery timelines, requirements and technical constraints

You will:

• Champion the evolution of Nearmap’s geospatial data platform, including distributed imagery storage, AI data pipelines, and content delivery optimisation.
• Ensure sub-second latency and high-throughput performance across customer-facing APIs and internal services.

What we offer:

• Medical care
• Sport Card (MultiSport)
• MultiLife (mental and physical wellbeing)
• Attractive employee referral program
• Nearmap subscription (naturally)