Overview
Bring your passion for creating mobile and field data collection apps and join us in developing leading-edge cross-platform mapping and GIS solutions that run on the latest mobile devices. As a Senior Product Engineer, you will make significant, hands‑on contributions to the design, quality, and delivery of critical product capabilities, with a strong focus on real‑world GIS workflows and user experience.
This role is intended for an experienced engineer who demonstrates a deep, holistic understanding of how GIS software is applied in practice, and who consistently delivers high‑quality outcomes across design, implementation, testing, and validation.
Responsibilities
- Help define and implement product functionality, contributing to tools, workflows, documentation, and test design
- Translate user requirements and real‑world GIS workflows into well‑designed software functionality and user experiences
- Take ownership of complex features or subsystems, contributing to technical design, implementation, and quality assurance
- Work closely with Software Development Engineers to ensure functionality, usability, and overall product quality meet Esri standards
- Design and maintain holistic and unit‑level tests that ensure reliability and long‑term maintainability of the product
- Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and feature reviews, helping shape scope, priorities, and delivery approaches
- Respond to complex or high‑priority technical issues, contributing to diagnosis, resolution, and continuous improvement
- Share knowledge and guidance with other product engineers, contributing to team capability and consistency through informal mentoring and collaboration
- May coordinate project timelines, scope, and dependencies for assigned features or initiatives
Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial software development experience
- Demonstrated experience excelling in one or more aspects of Product Engineering, with the ability to contribute effectively across a broader subsystem
- Strong experience delivering production‑grade software, tests, or sample applications in a complex product environment
- Experience taking customer feedback and applying it to improve software design and quality
- Proven ability to apply GIS concepts to real‑world problems and articulate effective implementation approaches
- Experience collaborating closely with software development teams to influence functionality, quality, and user experience
- Ability to independently plan and deliver complex work while coordinating effectively with cross‑functional partners
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical approaches and user workflows clearly
- Experience contributing to documentation, blogs, or guidance that helps customers apply GIS best practices
- Bachelor’s degree in geography, GIS, computer science, engineering, or a related field
Recommended Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience writing production‑level test frameworks, sample applications, or complex workflows
- Experience working in applied GIS domains such as utilities, government, infrastructure, or field operations
- Master’s degree in geography, GIS, computer science, engineering, or a related field
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Total Rewards
Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
The Company
At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri’s Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.
If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!
Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.
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