Mapbox
API • Transport • Telecommunications
Mapbox is a leading provider of custom online maps, offering APIs and SDKs that allow developers to integrate highly customizable maps into their web and mobile applications. Mapbox's services enable real-time data updates, immersive mapping experiences, and advanced navigation features tailored to specific industries like automotive and travel. Their solutions include Mapbox Studio for map design, Mapbox GL JS for web maps, and various SDKs for mobile and automotive navigation. Companies rely on Mapbox for applications in real estate, logistics, and business intelligence, benefiting from real-time, high-quality geospatial datasets and tools.
Software Development Engineer III, Maps API
September 4
Mapbox
API • Transport • Telecommunications
Mapbox is a leading provider of custom online maps, offering APIs and SDKs that allow developers to integrate highly customizable maps into their web and mobile applications. Mapbox's services enable real-time data updates, immersive mapping experiences, and advanced navigation features tailored to specific industries like automotive and travel. Their solutions include Mapbox Studio for map design, Mapbox GL JS for web maps, and various SDKs for mobile and automotive navigation. Companies rely on Mapbox for applications in real estate, logistics, and business intelligence, benefiting from real-time, high-quality geospatial datasets and tools.
📋 Description
• Balance rapid development of new mapping tools against the reliability of services as they scale into new request volumes, markets, and use cases • Write application code robust to a world’s worth of data • Build and deploy microservices • Diagnose complex system behavior as global markets drive traffic in unexpected ways • Facilitate continuous delivery at Mapbox • 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 to keep pace with rapid customer growth • Promote operational excellence via testing, monitoring, documentation, and being on-call • Reduce technical debt, share knowledge, invest in teammates’ health and happiness • Optimize application performance and accelerate feature velocity • Maintain and improve high-traffic read APIs and distributed ETL pipelines used to turn data into maps
🎯 Requirements
• 8+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services • Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3) • 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 (develop hypotheses, conduct spikes, communicate findings) • Desire to share expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and written/verbal discussion • 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) Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain • (Nice-to-have) Experience with Amazon RDS • (Nice-to-have) Experience with SQL • (Nice-to-have) Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge
🏖️ Benefits
• Supportive health care • Parental leave • Flexibility for the things that come up in life • Innovating on how we think about supporting our people • An environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful • Commitment to growing a diverse team and encouraging people of all backgrounds to apply
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