Software Development Engineer III, Routing Cost

Mapbox; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working conditions

Supportive health care

Parental leave

Job summary

Mapbox is looking for a Software Development Engineer III for the Routing Cost team in Ohio. You will lead the design and development of production systems for the routing cost engine, collaborating with a team of about 80 engineers. Candidates should possess 8-10+ years of engineering experience, with proficiency in C++, Python, and cloud services. The role emphasizes operational excellence and customer focus, emphasizing mentorship and effective communication skills. Join Mapbox and help shape innovative navigation experiences!

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of engineering experience, showcasing expertise and a strong track record.
• Extensive coding experience in languages such as C++, Python, and Rust.
• Deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead feature implementation within the navigation organization.
• Design scalable services for API and routing engine tiers.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure system availability.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

Cloud database services

Data structures and algorithms

Multithreading

Performance optimisation

Clean code

Communication skills

Job description

Location

Mapbox Germany

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Navigation

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 We Do

The Navigation team at Mapbox develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive and logistics verticals. We are a highly multidisciplinary organization, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

Collectively we are revolutionizing in-car experiences with technology to build fast, industry-leading maps and navigation for any vehicle. We’ve launched products such as MapGPT, Mapbox for EV, and we’re enhancing the visual experience of in-vehicle navigation with 3D styling with our new Mapbox Standard through web and mobile SDKs. Mapbox has worked with automotive partners—including BMW, Toyota and GM—to bring the best aspects of mobile app development into in-vehicle navigation and infotainment.

Mapbox Blog: Introducing 3D Live Navigation

Mapbox Blog: Route Notifications Improve Driver Safety

Mapbox Newsroom: AI Features in New Navigation SDK

What You’ll Do

As an Software Development Engineer III on the Routing Cost team, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked production systems for our routing cost engine. Your technical contributions will include:

• Lead the engineering team(s) to execute end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation organization (~80 engineers).

• Design and implement scalable services for our API and routing engine tiers, following best practices for deployment, resilience and observability.

• Run and design experiments to evaluate the quality, reliability and capacity requirements of our user-facing navigation products.

• Work with product owners, sales engineering and management to drive future product direction.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7. Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 8-10+ years of engineering experience: Extensive hands‑on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the field.

• Technical knowledge: Extensive experience coding in a variety of languages such as C++, Python and/or Rust. Deep knowledge of different data structures and algorithms, design patterns, memory management, multithreading and performance optimisation for high‑efficiency applications.

• Cloud proficiency: Extensive experience with cloud database services, including AWS RDS, Google Cloud Spanner and Azure SQL, as well as deploying and managing databases in cloud environments.

• Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization. Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture, with a drive to elevate engineering practices and design standards across the team.

• Ownership & execution: Own the technical vision, lead the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of our routing cost engine.

• Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.

• Growth mindset: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them.

• Mentorship: Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams developing skill sets and career growth.

• Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience. You are able to lead and resolve org-wide technical discussions and are able to collaborate and include input from cross-functional teams (security, devops, data, compliance and product).

• Data informed mindset: You believe in the value of data-informed decision making and strive to measure things that are not straight forward but essential. You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect and comprehensive data.

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• 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.

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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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