CARTO is hiring a
Solutions Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Solution Engineer at CARTO, a leading location intelligence platform. The role involves working closely with the sales team to understand customer challenges and build solutions using geospatial technology. The position is fully remote in the US or LATAM.

Requirements

• Be a great communicator
• Be passionate about technology but also eager to learn how that technology can be applied to solve business problems
• 5 or more years of expertise in GIS consultancy using any mix of geospatial technology and tools
• Strong knowledge and experience working with geospatial technology and tools, particularly open source tools and libraries
• Hands-on or knowledge of major cloud platforms (particularly data warehouses) such as Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery), Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Web Services (Redshift), etc
• Experience working on solution-oriented apps using a wide range of technologies such as Python, Javascript, PostGIS, SQL, APIs, and more
• A collaborative work style that can thrive in a flexible, fluid operating environment
• A positive mindset. You’re motivated with a sense of urgency in executing and delivering growth
• Sales orientation
• Most of all, you are optimistic, data-driven, smart, and eager to learn!

Responsibilities

• Work closely within our Sales team, helping reps understand our customer’s challenges, building a vision for a solution that solves a business problem, enabling the team, and organizing internal resources to deliver a winning proposal
• Communicate effectively in both technical and business discussions, with both technology users and executive-level decision makers
• Discover what a customer needs to accomplish and will define how it can be achieved with a geospatial solution
• Transform problems into a functional scope and economic proposal both for our SaaS platform and professional services
• Plan, design, and present bootcamp-style prospect sessions to facilitate the onboarding experience for CARTO's end users
• Develop proofs of concept and small applications using the CARTO platform
• Position CARTO's unique value proposition and competitive differentiators in competitive procurement processes

Benefits

• Competitive, results-based compensation
• Flexible work hours in a focused but casual environment
• Access to private medical insurance
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Growth prospects at a truly welcoming multicultural and multilingual company with a supportive, team-work oriented work environment
• A big vision: to help the world use location-based data to make better decisions. We believe that openness and sustainability are baked into this vision, and we’re sharing it with the world