Senior Maps API Engineer (Remote)

Mapbox; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote options

Health, dental, income protection

Family care & parental leave

Lifestyle spending account

Mental health support

Paid time off & holidays

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Mapbox is hiring a Software Development Engineer III for the Maps API team in a backend-focused role. You will balance rapid development of new mapping tools with reliability as traffic and markets scale, building robust services and deployable microservices.

You’ll lead, design, and implement systems, mentor peers, and drive code quality through testing and reviews. Remote/hybrid options are available for this role.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
• Proficiency with Python, NodeJS, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront).
• Experience building mapping and geospatial related products.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub.
• 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 and lead individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead your engineering 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 architectural decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base.
• Mentor your peers through 1:1s, facilitating design and code reviews, and providing continuous guidance to foster professional growth and technical excellence.
• 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.

Skills

Python

NodeJS

AWS

Geospatial

GitHub

Independent worker

Communication

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Mapbox is hiring a Software Development Engineer III for the Maps API team in a backend-focused role. You will balance rapid development of new mapping tools with reliability as traffic and markets scale, building robust services and deployable microservices.

You’ll lead, design, and implement systems, mentor peers, and drive code quality through testing and reviews. Remote/hybrid options are available for this role.