Job Details

Overview

Software Development Engineer II, API at Mapbox. Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox equips organizations with the full set of tools to power navigation of people, packages, and vehicles. Over 4 million registered developers choose Mapbox for its flexibility, security, and privacy compliance. Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs are used to create customized experiences for customers.

What You'll Do

As a Software Development Engineer II, API at Mapbox, youll 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 testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services.
• Reduce technical debt, share knowledge, and invest in 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 Python, Node.js, TypeScript (backend), 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 initiatives
• Ability to perform independently all development tasks based on designs and specs
• Self-starter who is communication and outcomes-oriented
• An empirical analytical approach with strong hypotheses, spikes, and clear communication of findings
• Desire to share expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing, and both written and verbal discussion
• Desire to work with individuals from 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 with location technologies (navigation, mapping, GIS)
• Experience with Amazon RDS
• Experience with SQL and/or C++
• Experience with various security standards and related technical knowledge

What We Value

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work, supported by health care, parental leave, flexibility, and innovating on how we support our people
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful
• We encourage growing a diverse team and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $157,675 - $213,325 for most US locations; 5% to 10% higher in locations with higher labor costs. Job level and actual compensation are decided based on qualifications, market demands, and location. Please discuss your work location with your recruiter for more information.

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