Amo

Location Platform Engineer

Paris. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will build and maintain infrastructure that fetches and processes background location data across various devices and operating systems. The role involves working on production systems at scale while balancing battery efficiency, privacy compliance, and OS compatibility.

What you will do

  • Develop and maintain backend services in Rust and client-side codebases in Rust, Kotlin, and Swift.
  • Contribute to systems handling high traffic and large volumes of location data.
  • Improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Enhance infrastructure supporting iPhone and Android devices.
  • Collaborate with iOS and Android engineers.
  • Implement and optimize location data collection using Wi-Fi, network signals, GPS, and Bluetooth.
  • Adapt to evolving OS updates and privacy standards.
  • Contribute to internal tooling such as analytics dashboards and debugging utilities.
  • Monitor system metrics, triage bugs, and address performance issues.
  • Ensure compliance with privacy regulations and OS requirements.

Required qualifications

  • Solid foundations in low-level programming or backend development.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency or strong experience with Rust
  • Experience with Kotlin or Swift
  • Ability to work across backend and client-side code
  • Familiarity with battery optimization techniques and privacy-aware engineering
  • Interest or experience in mobile systems, location technologies, or distributed infrastructure
  • Experience with iOS and Android location APIs
  • Familiarity with custom ROMs or reverse engineering
  • Prior experience in location services, mobile OS internals, or performance optimization
  • Exposure to networking fundamentals and distributed systems

Benefits

  • Health care fully covered
  • Maternity, paternity, and second parent leave with full salary
  • 8–9 weeks total vacation per year, including 5 state-mandated weeks, 1–2 RTT weeks, ~11 bank holidays
  • Company-wide shutdowns twice a year (summer 2 weeks, winter 1 week)
  • Sponsored visa process
  • 1 month of Airbnb covered upon arrival
  • Assistance from relocation agency for permanent housing
  • Help with French paperwork (social security, taxes, healthcare, etc.)
  • French lessons

Before you apply

  • Please indicate your years of experience on the application form.

About the company

amo is a company where 68% of the team is international.