Software Development Engineer, Mapbox
Maps API
$143.2-193.8k
Location data platform for web and mobile
Job no longer available
Location data platform for web and mobile
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$143.2-193.8k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
- Experience leading a team of remote and distributed engineers
- Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), and AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, and 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. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings
- A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion
- A 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
Desirable
- Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain
- Experience with Amazon RDS
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for balancing rapid development of new mapping tools against the reliability of our services as they scale into new request volumes, markets, and use cases
- In a single week on the Maps API team, you might 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, or 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 that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base
- Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services
- Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity
- Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions
- Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, and being on-call to support the health of our services
Our take
Location data platform Mapbox provides custom online maps for an impressive list of apps and websites including Facebook, IBM, Lonely Planet, and Snapchat. It has more than 3.5 million registered developers using its toolkit because of the platform's flexibility, security, and privacy, and has rapidly expanded to become a leading provider of custom map services, competing with companies like Google and Here.
Its more flexible and less costly service is winning it a real edge - and some major Google clients, like Foursquare, who defected in 2012. Its service Mapbox Dash uses the increasingly popular what3words service to offer highly accurate dashboard navigation. Mapbox Dash has already been integrated into General Motors vehicles as Maps+, indicating significant industry support for Mapbox’s software - and a strong strategic eye for new ways of embedding itself into lucrative markets.
Such a promising performance helped Mapbox reach Unicorn status, and more recently secure a strategic partnership with Toyota Motor Europe to provide its maps and location platform in a number of its car models. Paired with its work in digital twinning with Snowflake and recent partnerships with Michelin Mobility, it's clear that Mapbox is doing exciting and important work on a service that has promising, multi-industry applications in a market expected to reach $33.18 billion by 2027.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2023
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$107m
SERIES D
Total funding: $614.2m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance premium coverage for our team and generous premium contributions for all dependents
- 401(k)/Roth
- Additional mental health and mindfulness solutions along with a quarterly benefit dedicated toward your wellness expenses
- Everyone is encouraged to take a minimum of three weeks accrued vacation per year (with no maximum), in addition to the week off between Christmas and New Years Day
- Generous paid time off, flexible return to work and a financial contribution when your family grows
Company HQ
Connecticut Ave/ K Street, Washington, DC
Leadership
Eric Gundersen
(Chair of the Board)Having studied at American University, Eric spent 7 years at Development Seed, leaving his President role in 2010 to co-found Mapbox as CEO.
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