SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (GRAPHICS)

What is Watoga?

Watoga provides cutting edge technology-enabled services to optimize mining operations, reduce waste, and increase profitability. Our first step is the drill and blast process, which means understanding what’s in the rock and how to blast it efficiently.

Everything around us starts as ore in the ground. Valuable ore is rare, but the time constraints of mining and the lack of information about the subsurface causes modern mines to send tons of ore to waste and leave billions of dollars on the table.

Although the mining industry is worth $2.4 trillion, a lot of mining operations still operate with old technology and outdated practices. It is our mission to maximize the use of existing data and enrich it with better instrumentalization to build a future in which fully autonomous mining is a reality, where the earth’s resources are used to their fullest extent. This is just the beginning.

Responsibilities

• Design graphics, visualization and CAD tooling to integrate with our drill and blast plan design application
• Architect and ensure reliability of the rendering and graphics of the CAD scene
• Work to make the design files exported to other CAD software
• Build out integrations with other CAD software and implement systems for robust geometric representation of objects in the CAD scene

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with graphics, visualization and CAD tooling
• Experience in several of the following languages and frameworks: React, ThreeJS, Electron, Python, CAD, C++, Rust, Bevy, etc.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Habit of writing clean and documented code
• Experience diagnosing complex graphics, visualization and CAD issues
• Experience in the mining industry is a plus

In this role, you will

• Own a product vertical with the opportunity to build a team around yourself over time
• Work directly with our internal and external customers to drive our roadmap
• Get to build alongside the best engineers and mining operators in the world
• Be given autonomy and virtually unlimited room to grow
• Travel all over the world

This might be a good fit if you

• Have a bias to action, take pride in your work, and care more about getting to the right solution than being right
• Have led critical projects or initiatives
• Have extensive experience shipping modern, full-stack software
• Are product-minded and user-driven
• Have a strong first-principled way of thinking
• Are excited to work in a fast-paced environment with high stakes and quick iteration cycles
• Are a previous or future founder — if you leave Watoga to start a company, we’ll do everything to support you, including investing in you and introducing you to Watoga’s investors
• Can work from our Montreal headquarters

Compensation

This role will pay $100,000–$150,000, plus significant equity, so you have a real stake in Watoga’s success. We are all in this journey together.

Aside from base compensation, we invest heavily in our team. You’ll have the freedom and resources to experiment and iterate quickly. We’re a high-growth company with no middle management, which translates to fast decision making and the ability for you to own major initiatives from day one.

All meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) are paid for when you’re at headquarters. You’ll also have a room at our headquarters in Montreal provided, if you wish to stay there – we’ll be booking a penthouse for the office and having the whole team stay there.

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work from our headquarters in Montreal
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

We’re building a better future in mining. If you’re passionate about making a real-world impact and solving complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you.