Software Development Engineer III, Maps API

The role

You will lead an engineering team to develop new mapping tools and maintain service reliability. You will design systems, mentor peers, and manage high-traffic read APIs and ETL pipelines.

What you will do

• Lead your engineering 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 architectural decisions.
• Mentor your peers through 1:1s, design and code reviews, and continuous guidance.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence through testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Be on-call to support the health of services.
• Reduce technical debt and optimize application performance.
• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.

Required qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
• Proficiency with Python, NodeJS, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront).
• Experience building mapping and geospatial related products.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub.
• 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.
• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing, and both written and verbal discussion.
• A desire to work with and lead individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++

Benefits

• Private health, dental, and income protection plans tailored to regional statutory benefits.
• Family care, maternity and paternity leave policies.
• Lifestyle Spending Account for health, wellness, and personal growth.
• Mental health support for you and your dependents.
• Paid time away, company holidays, and generous absence policies.
• Dedicated paid volunteering time in addition to your standard PTO.

Before you apply

• Interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

About the company

Mapbox is a real-time location platform that equips organizations with tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles. The Maps API team builds and maintains the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox maps.