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Associate GIS Developer

📍 Patna 🏷️ Software Development 💰 ₹62,000 / month

Boring Road in Patna has an Associate GIS Developer opening, full time, on site, with a software team building spatial applications for regional infrastructure and utility clients. One and a half to two years of experience is the expectation, enough to have moved past the basics of a GIS course project into real deployment concerns.

The work covers writing and maintaining application code for spatial features, working closely with cross-functional teams on new capabilities, and fixing bugs identified during testing, often ones tied to coordinate system mismatches or performance issues that only appear once a dataset grows past what worked fine in a small test sample. GIS bugs have a habit of hiding until real-scale data exposes them.

What you'll be doing

  • Write and maintain application code for GIS features and spatial tools
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on new spatial feature development
  • Fix bugs identified during testing, particularly around data scale and projection issues
  • Support senior developers with data preparation and quality checks

Required skills are GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS, spatial databases, Python, and geospatial analysis fundamentals. A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with proficiency in the tools this role uses and, ideally, some hands-on exposure already, whether from coursework, a personal project, or a prior internship.

Good to have

  • Familiarity with PostGIS or another spatial database extension
  • Basic web mapping experience using Leaflet or Mapbox
  • Any exposure to satellite or aerial imagery processing

Boring Road sits in a growing part of Patna's tech and services corridor, and the client base here includes regional utility providers whose infrastructure mapping needs are genuinely large in scope, covering thousands of kilometers of network assets that need to stay accurately represented as physical infrastructure changes on the ground.

Naukri Mitra has posted a few software roles from this employer, and associate developers who joined in the past two years describe the early months as spent mostly on data cleanup and validation work before moving into feature development, which some find tedious at first but nearly everyone credits later with teaching them to spot data quality problems that senior developers elsewhere might miss.

Interviews include a technical exercise working with a sample spatial dataset and a conversation about a past project. Candidates who ask good questions about data provenance and quality during the exercise tend to leave a stronger impression than those who jump straight to writing code.

Onboarding for this role runs roughly two to three weeks, split between shadowing a current team member and working through a small, low-risk real task under review before moving to independent ownership. The team has found that a slower, more deliberate ramp-up produces fewer costly mistakes down the line than throwing someone straight into full ownership from day one.

A spatial join that looks correct visually can still be quietly wrong due to a coordinate system mismatch that only becomes obvious once you check the actual numbers rather than the rendered map, and associate developers here are taught to verify coordinate reference systems explicitly rather than trusting that a map looking right means the underlying data is right too.

Project timelines here range from a few weeks for a smaller feature addition to several months for a larger infrastructure mapping engagement, and associate developers are expected to flag data quality concerns early in a project rather than discovering them partway through implementation.

The team maintains a shared library of common coordinate system and projection issues encountered across past projects, and associate developers are encouraged to check it before assuming a new spatial bug is genuinely novel, since a surprising number turn out to be a variation on a previously documented pattern.

Benefits

  • Health insurance for the employee
  • Paid time off
  • Provident fund contributions
  • Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Patna

This role is based at Boring Road, Patna, pin code 800001, five days a week on site. Pay is up to ₹62,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within four to five weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Writing and maintaining application code for spatial features, fixing bugs tied to coordinate system or data scale issues, and supporting senior developers with data preparation and quality checks.
Mostly data cleanup and validation work before moving into feature development, something past hires say felt tedious at first but taught them to spot data quality problems others might miss.
They keep a shared library of common coordinate system and projection issues from past projects, and associate developers are encouraged to check it before assuming a new bug is genuinely novel.
A technical exercise with a sample spatial dataset and a conversation about a past project. Asking good questions about data provenance during the exercise tends to leave a strong impression.
Pay is up to ₹62,000 a month, and the team hopes to fill the seat within four to five weeks.
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