Quick facts
Location: Finland
Salary: 4,000€ per mont
Submitting your application: We will review applications on a rolling basis and proceed with matching candidates quickly.
About us
CHAOS is a fast-growing location intelligence startup turning complex location data into clear, actionable intelligence for businesses and real estate leaders. We’re at a rare stage where ambition, momentum, and opportunity meet—early enough for you to shape how things are built, and real enough for your work to have immediate impact. If you want to grow fast, take ownership, and help create technology that genuinely improves how real estate industry is reinvented , CHAOS is the place for you.
Role Purpose
The GIS Data Engineer – Geospatial Data Platform is responsible for the reliability, quality, and scalability of CHAOS’ data platform.
This role ensures that the data powering CHAOS products is accurate, up-to-date, and continuously improving. You will take ownership of operational data workflows currently handled across engineering and leadership, allowing product engineers to focus fully on product development.
You will work at the intersection of data engineering, geospatial infrastructure, and data sourcing, ensuring our platform integrates high-quality datasets that unlock valuable insights for our customers.
Beyond maintaining existing pipelines, you will play a key role in identifying new data sources, improving data quality processes, and building scalable ingestion and automation systems that support CHAOS' long-term growth.
Key responsibilities
Own the day-to-day health and performance of CHAOS geospatial data platform, ensure recency, quality, and scalability of core data
Build and monitor scalable end-to-end data pipelines
Contribute to data strategy, building governance processes, and platform standards (naming, quality thresholds, access rules)
Maintain dataset documentation, schemas, metadata, and build internal data catalogs
Ensure data changes are communicated clearly across teams
Support establishing best practices for privacy, compliance, and responsible use of location data
Identify and evaluate new data sources to expand platform coverage and usefulness
Act as a data steward, ensuring reliable data support for internal and external stakeholders
Skills & Requirements
Required
3+ years of experience in data engineering, GIS engineering, or geospatial data development
Strong hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
Strong understanding of geospatial data concepts (coordinate systems, geometry types, spatial joins, indexing, tiling, etc.)
Proficiency with SQL and spatial databases (preferably PostGIS)
Experience working with geospatial formats such as GeoJSON, Shapefile, GeoPackage, KML, WKT/WKB
Proficiency in Python
Nice to have
Exposure to real estate field, like real estate due diligence or land use analysis is a strong plus
Experience with modern data stacks and cloud platforms such as GCP
Experience supporting AI/ML pipelines using geospatial data
Familiarity with data governance and metadata management
Experience building internal data APIs or geospatial services
Why join CHAOS
You’ll join CHAOS at a pivotal growth stage, with real influence over how the company’s data infrastructure and geospatial intelligence platform are built and scaled globally.
Horizontal organization with real ownership
Hybrid work with a big and beautiful Helsinki office
Strong focus on work–life balance
International and diverse team
Occupational healthcare
Daily snacks, team breakfasts, and real human connection