Mapbox
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative API Software Development Engineers (SDEs) for product teams in our Navigation organization. These teams utilize a centralized hiring model where they combine their hiring efforts offering candidates the opportunity to choose which team to join.
Below are the teams that work together to hire API SDEs at Mapbox:
– We are a group of innovators creating solutions to challenges in the delivery space from resource planning to delivery execution and beyond. We solve complex geospatial data problems and leverage algorithms and statistical analysis for use cases ranging from distribution strategy to delivery route planning for fleets from dozens to thousands of vehicles.
– We develop and maintain the web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics. We are a highly multidisciplinary team with work spanning from distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.
What You’ll Do
As a Software Development Engineer II, API at Mapbox, you’ll play a key role in developing software for complex mapping and navigation software for cars, web, and mobile devices.
In this role, you can expect to:
Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks.
Execute on the scope and be accountable for delivering on time with quality.
Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base.
Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services.
Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity.
Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
Proficiency in our tech stack – NodeJS, TypeScript (backend), and AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, etc.)
Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub
Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives
Able to perform independently all the development tasks, based on designs and specs.
Self-starter who is communication and outcomes-oriented
An empirical analytical approach. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings
A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion
A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
High quality mindset — write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production
Nice to Have Traits for This Role
Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain
Experience with Amazon RDS
Experience with SQL
Experience with Python
Experience with Spark
Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge
What We Value
In addition to , which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
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