Software Engineer, Niantic
Mapping Services
$158.4-176k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Open for applications
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$158.4-176k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, 2+ years focusing on server backend services and data pipelines
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, C++, JavaScript, or Python
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- Experience with geospatial data processing and map technologies, familiarity with geo data sources like OpenStreetMap
- Experience with geospatial databases and geoquery tools (e.g., Postgres, BigQuery)
- Working knowledge of web-based 3D rendering using WebGL technologies such as Three.js
What the job involves
- Niantic’s Engineering Team is searching for a Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer to develop and refine advanced mapping and geospatial data services that support our games, applications, and the Lightship developer community
- In this role, you will be responsible for constructing data pipelines that assimilate geospatial information from multiple sources and transform it into formats ready for use
- You will also develop backend services and APIs to supply the processed geodata to both internal and external clients, potentially involving backend service integrations and frontend/client solutions
- You will work closely with other developers in a small, tightly knit team to build these solutions
- Build and maintain scalable map data pipelines for processing data from diverse sources into servable formats for various levels of details
- Innovate and maintain services and APIs for delivering POIs and semantic map data according to customers' needs
- Collaborate with various teams and stakeholders to weave services into their offerings, providing support with data analysis and ongoing maintenance
- Perform code reviews, maintain high coding standards, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes
- Contribute to the entire product release cycle, including QA testing, load testing, and the establishment of metrics, monitoring, and alerts
- Troubleshoot and optimize performance for map-related services to ensure seamless user experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
- Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
- 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
- Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
- Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
- Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups
Company values
- Start with a worthy goal
- Invite everyone on board
- Lead from the front
- Set waypoints, and then stay on course
- Speak the truth, to serve the mission
- See it through
- Weather storms
- Summit mountains
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
Phil Keslin
(CTO)Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.
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