### Flow Labs is Solving Traffic!
Flow Labs is solving one of the biggest environmental, safety, and economic
problems in the world: traffic.
Each year, the global economy loses $1 trillion due to congestion , 1.35m
people lose their lives on roadways, and roadway transportation accounts for
18% of global emissions, making it one of the largest contributors to climate
change.
We're changing that–right now. Our cloud-based products allow transportation
agencies to monitor, analyze, and optimize transportation on their roadways.
We’re proven to reduce travel times by 24%, and emissions by 21%. Given these
results, if we deployed our technology across the US today, we’d save citizens
up to $75 billion in fuel costs, remove 349 million tons of carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere each year - the equivalent of planting a forest 1.5 times
the size of New York State - and we’d add 1% to the national GDP. This is a
pioneering approach to a century old problem backed by world-first
technologies, including a proprietary data collection method and a proprietary
approach to transportation optimization. .
### About You
We're looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team and help
us build the future of traffic management. The ideal candidate:
* Is excited about making an impact with their work
* Is looking for an environment where difficult real-life problems are being tackled
* Enjoys working autonomously, with supportive & collaborative teammates from different disciplines
* Is a product engineer who has a strong technical foundation
* Can contribute to UI/UX considerations, product roadmap and business decisions
### Role and Responsibilities
We are a small nimble team tackling challenging problems, so there will be
many opportunities to build and take ownership over complex systems that are
integral to our platform. Your primary responsibility will be building new
products and new features for our existing on our frontend web app:
* Implement UI/UX to help traffic engineers, governments and citizens understand what is happening on their roadways
* Work with product and design to turn complex information and processes into simple, elegant workflows
* Help with onboarding, training and inspiring junior engineers
### Desired Qualifications
* 6+ years of professional software development experience
* 4+ years with web frontend technologies, and strong knowledge of vanilla Javascript and CSS
* Great communication skills
### Why Flow Labs?
* Work with cutting edge technology including Javascript, GraphQL, Mapbox, hardware accelerated overlay onto maps, Connected Vehicle Data, Autonomous Vehicles, and TimescaleDB
* Solve and learn about sophisticated engineering, scientific, and mathematical problems including cutting edge machine learning and AI (artificial neural networks, reinforcement learning, modeling and simulations), rigorous data analytics and statistics, big data processing, optimization and cost management, edge work and non-standard UI, and Kubernetes management
* Contribute to solving a global problem that impacts climate, sustainability, safety, health, economic vitality, equity, and resilient cities
* Work with a collaborative, supportive, and diverse team that prioritizes meritocracy, taking action, teaching co-workers new skills, work/life balance, flexibility, and humor
* Get ample opportunities to grow, learn, and contribute
### Bonus Points!
Technologies and techniques you're likely to work on are listed below. It's
helpful (though optional) if you have experience with some of these as well:
* React w/ hooks, efficient browser rendering
* App state management (we use mobx-state-tree)
* GraphQL
* SVGs, basic 2D rendering and transformations
* Maps & geography
* Graphs & charts
