Farallon seeks technically agile GIS professionals

Why a career at Farallon?

Long term relationships with staff, clients & partners - Farallon fosters a positive work environment focused on industry leadership, innovation, intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, shared knowledge and a sense of ownership and responsibility.

Collegial & collaborative without bureaucracy - Our nimble size allows staff to have a wide variety of responsibilities and opportunities for growth and development. Team members work on several projects - sometimes as the project manager and other times as an individual contributor.

Benefits - Farallon offers a competitive salary plus excellent benefits. Farallon's incentive cash bonus plan ties individual compensation to the success of Farallon. We also offer generous personal time off policy (18 days per year for first 5 years then 24 days per year after 5 years); Blue Cross medical (choice of PPO or HMO), Blue Cross dental, VSP vision and Principal life insurance; as well as the e401K plan through Fidelity Investments with a company contribution.

Farallon is seeking entrepreneurial individuals with diverse technological backgrounds. We are looking for dedicated, self-motivated professionals who seek technical challenges in a fast paced, quickly expanding, team-oriented environment. Positions are hands-on and involve developing and following complex technical workflows for a variety of GIS and web related tasks for a variety of GIS clients. You must have the technical agility, focus, flexibility, enthusiasm and vision to complement such a work environment.

Current Openings

Web Application Developer

Farallon Geographics seeks an innovative and entrepreneurial Web Application Developer to join our geospatial systems integration team.  We desire an enthusiastic and computer savvy person who can mash up geographic data with business systems to create the next generation of decision support systems required by our clients.

You should have an understanding of enterprise-scale code development and the role web applications such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth can play in presenting geographically-referenced information to users throughout an enterprise.

Required Qualifications:

  • BS in a science, computer science, or engineering field, or the equivalent experience
  • At least 1-3 years of web application development using .NET (C# preferred)
  • Experience creating database driven web sites
  • Strong (D)HTML, JavaScript, and client-side coding experience with debugging skills
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies
  • Ability to work collaboratively and productively in a small team
  • Excellent communication and organization skills
  • Ability to lead and manage clients

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated experience developing clean, intuitive user interfaces
  • Experience with XML, CSS, JSON, and XSLT
  • Experience developing production-grade web services
  • Experience and strong interest in mashing up dynamic data feeds with Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and traditional GIS systems
  • Experience with traditional GIS systems (e.g., ESRI) desirable but not required
  • Experience with Free or Open Source Geospatial technologies desirable but not required

Farallon offers a competitive salary commensurate with your talents and an excellent benefits program including generous paid time off, health, vision, life and 401K.

To apply send a cover letter (including why you are interested in GIS and Farallon Geographics plus your most recent salary) and resume (PDF format preferred, .doc accepted) to

San Francisco Bay Area or Portland, OR area residents preferred.