Software Engineer

Propeller is on a mission to take the guesswork out of moving dirt - reducing wasted fuel, time, and money. We do this through the power of maps.

Our customers use Propeller’s integrated hardware and software products to capture accurate 3D versions of their worksites. With over 50,000 worksites worldwide using Propeller’s smart survey technology, we empower project teams to map, measure, and manage site activity.

Propeller empowers everyone to approach, own, and solve problems creatively. We’re data nerds who care about impact, honesty, and each other. We take pride in being a great place to work. We are proud to be recipients of BiGroup's  Excellence in Customer Experience award and Inspiring Workplaces of Australasia, being recognised as a FastCompany  and BuiltIn Best Place to Work. You can learn more about us on Glassdoor.
Your Mission:
You will help shape the media experience at Propeller end to end, from video upload and background processing through to transcoding, streaming, and playback across mobile and desktop. You’ll evolve and maintain Propeller's 360 walkthrough experience while delivering new media integrations across the platform. Success means making media features reliable, useful, and ready to support future hardware and product integrations.
Your Responsibilities:

• Media feature delivery: Build, design, and maintain media features across backend, frontend, and mobile.
• 360 walkthroughs: Own and improve the existing 360 walkthrough functionality.
• Media integrations: Integrate new media types and hardware by working from camera and device specifications.
• Video pipeline: Help deliver video upload, background processing, transcoding, streaming, and playback.
• Ground Capture collaboration: Work across the Ground Capture group on shared product goals and future drone and dock integrations.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience working across the full stack.
• Confidence moving between different parts of a technical pipeline.
• Ability to read technical or hardware specifications and turn them into practical integrations.
• Strong communication, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and taking ownership of ambiguous problems.

Bonus points for:

• Understanding of media formats, codecs, transcoding, or streaming.
• Experience with asynchronous or background task processing.

Benefits

• Employee share options
• Professional development budget and leave
• The opportunity to take part in our mentorship program
• Mental health resources
• Monthly telephone and/or internet allowance
• Paid primary & secondary parental leave policies
• Hybrid work arrangements and WFH equipment provided

About Propeller

Propeller is for everyone, so come as you are. We value all types of experience, skill, and ability.  If you don’t think you meet all the requirements, but still think this role would be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you.

Diversity makes our team more creative, fun, and effective, so bring your whole self to the application process, and we will too!

If you’re interested in what life at Propeller is like, check out our employee-owned Medium blog page!