Senior Software Development Engineer, Maps API

About the Role

Mapbox is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Maps API team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the applications and infrastructure that create and distribute Mapbox maps. Our services handle billions of requests daily, scaling in real-time to global events, and enabling designers, developers, and analysts to create and share innovative maps.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the 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 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.

What We Are Looking For

• 8-10+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
• Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain.
• Proficiency in our tech stack — NodeJS, Python, TypeScript (backend), SQL, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront).
• 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.

Why Join Us?

• 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.

Compensation

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from €183,175 to €247,825 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.

Join us at Mapbox and be part of a team that is shaping the future of location technology.