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Front-End Developer for Seoul office

Are you passionate about building intuitive and beautiful user interfaces? Do you want to develop digital tools that help users design flood resilient cities and infrastructure? Do you want to help change the way high-resolution terrain data is used in city planning and flood management?

Then join our international and highly qualified team and help us further develop the front-end of the SCALGO Live platform.

About SCALGO

SCALGO was founded to change the way we plan our cities and protect our nature by bringing advanced terrain data-processing to the market and harness the power of large-scale digital elevation data. SCALGO’s main product – SCALGO Live – is a web-based platform used by engineers, landscape architects, urban planners and biologists who work to create better and more sustainable environments with space for water.

In SCALGO Live, users can quickly explore how surface water and terrain interacts, and experiment with ways to adapt cities to climate change, restore nature, develop blue-green urban environments, and create robust stormwater management around infrastructure.

Since launching SCALGO Live in Denmark in 2016, we have expanded into 8 new countries, and we now have more than 25.000 users spanning all the Nordic countries, the UK, Germany, Poland, and France. This year, we are continuing our growth journey by launching SCALGO Live in several new countries.

SCALGO currently employs a team of 29 highly qualified employees covering 9 different nationalities. The technical team consists of world leading experts in designing and implementing algorithms for analysing trillions of data elements. The multi-lingual market team consists of highly skilled engineers, planners, and marketers with deep insights into surface water planning.

By joining SCALGO, you will be a part of an international scale-up that is working towards creating a blue-green, climate adapted future using cutting-edge technologies.

About the position as Front-End Developer

SCALGO Live is a web-based platform with powerful interactive tools that allow the user to explore terrain and flood analysis. It is powered by a backend with state-of-the-art geometric analysis algorithms that enable extremely fast interactions and always up-to-date analysis.

It is essential that SCALGO Live is easy to use - also for users that are not experienced in data handling or surface water analysis. This means that we put plenty of focus on keeping the tool simple, intuitive, and visual.

In this role you will be working from our Seoul office and referring to the Head of SCALGO Korea and senior developer Jungwoo Yang, but you will also be collaborating closely with the rest of our international team. You will be supported by a powerful technology stack and build on a large, modern, TypeScript application primarily using React, OpenLayers, Sass and HTML. Experience in these technologies is beneficial.

Required Qualifications

  • Solid experience in front-end development
  • Excellent HTML/CSS skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written English
  • Experiences in developing web applications using modern client-side frameworks like React, AngularJS etc, and using the wider Javascript ecosystem, including front-end build tools (Vite, Webpack) and package managers (npm, Yarn)

Preferred Qualification

  • Comprehensive experience in React and Typescript or a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
  • Experience working with UI/UX designers and transferring designs from e.g. Figma into, into functioning software, including business and UI logic
  • Experiences in developing interactive map applications
  • Experiences in developing tools using geometric algorithms
  • Strong background in problem solving using proper data structure and algorithms

More information

Read more about SCALGO on scalgo.com.

If this position sounds like something for you, then please send your resume now to jobs@scalgo.com or call Jungwoo Yang at 070-8064-8192 if you have questions. Application deadline is Friday April 12, 2024.