Software Development Engineer II, Navigation, Traffic

Mapbox; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supportive health care

Flexible parental leave

Teaching and learning environment

Job summary

A location technology platform in Greater London is looking for a Mid-Senior Software Development Engineer II in Navigation Traffic. In this role, you will balance rapid development of navigation solutions with system reliability as demand scales. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in backend services and proficiency in technologies like Python and AWS. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive environment, encouraging diverse candidates to apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Ability to balance rapid development with system reliability.
• Experience with designing systems for scaling.

Responsibilities

• Develop new navigation solutions rapidly.
• Design systems that scale with customer demand.
• Promote operational excellence in testing and monitoring.

Skills

Building scalable high volume low latency backend services

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in TypeScript

Experience with AWS

Familiarity with GitHub

Tools

AWS CDK

AWS ECS

AWS Lambda

AWS S3

Job description

Software Development Engineer II, Navigation, Traffic

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What We Do

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What You’ll Do

As a Software Development Engineer II on the Navigation Traffic team, you will be responsible for balancing rapid development of new navigation solutions against the reliability of our services as they scale into new request volumes, markets, and use cases. In a single week, 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.

In This Role, You Can Expect To

• 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

What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role

• 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
• Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/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

Nice to Have Traits for This Role

• Experience and knowledge within the navigation domain
• Experience with Amazon Elasticache
• Experience with SQLExperience with Big Data/ML
• Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge

What We Value

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development

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