Location Platform Engineer: Scale Location Data & Privacy

US Health Partners, LLC; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care fully covered

Parental leave

Generous vacation (8–9 weeks)

Visa sponsorship

Airbnb upon arrival

Relocation assistance

French lessons

Job summary

Amo is seeking a Location Platform Engineer to help build and maintain the infrastructure for fetching and processing background location data across devices and OS versions. The role offers scale, privacy/compliance balance, and battery-aware design.

Senior and junior tracks exist, with opportunities to own the platform or contribute under guidance. Day-to-day includes backend services in Rust, cross-platform client code, and collaboration with iOS/Android teams to ensure a unified UX.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services (Rust) and client-side codebases (Rust, Kotlin, Swift).
• Contribute to systems that handle high traffic and large volumes of location data.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance under guidance or independently depending on experience.
• Enhance infrastructure supporting iPhone and Android devices, including various OS versions and OEM variants.
• Collaborate with iOS and Android engineers to maintain a unified and seamless user experience.
• Implement and optimize location data collection using Wi-Fi, network signals, GPS, and Bluetooth.
• Adapt to evolving OS updates and privacy standards, balancing accuracy and battery efficiency.
• Contribute to internal tooling such as analytics dashboards, debugging utilities, and per-user analysis tools.
• Monitor system metrics, triage bugs, and proactively address performance issues.
• Ensure compliance with privacy regulations and OS requirements.
• Build strong engineering fundamentals in testing, observability, and documentation.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, mobile OS changes, and distributed systems best practices.
• Grow technical depth and craftsmanship through mentorship, collaboration, and hands-on production experience.

Skills

Low-level programming

Backend development

Rust

Kotlin

Swift

Cross-platform

Distributed systems

Battery optimization

Privacy-aware engineering

Mobile systems

Tools

REST APIs

Job description

Amo is seeking a Location Platform Engineer to help build and maintain the infrastructure for fetching and processing background location data across devices and OS versions. The role offers scale, privacy/compliance balance, and battery-aware design.

Senior and junior tracks exist, with opportunities to own the platform or contribute under guidance. Day-to-day includes backend services in Rust, cross-platform client code, and collaboration with iOS/Android teams to ensure a unified UX.