Software Development Engineer II, Search

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. They are seeking a Software Development Engineer II for their Search Geocoding team to design and implement advanced search retrieval algorithms, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency in their geocoding search engine.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing search retrieval algorithms across multiple search engines
• Making existing algorithms more efficient and/or highly performant
• Writing technical design documents and participating in design and code reviews
• Owning the efficiency and accuracy of your designs, as well as being responsible for overseeing your own work through the development and implementation lifecycle, ultimately delivering excellent end results
• Collaborating with other engineers, PMs and teams internationally and cross functionally to deliver a high quality experience to our customers
• Promoting a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and codes, and being available/on-call to support the health of our services

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of search techniques (such as information retrieval) and data structures
• Practical experience in making an algorithms perform efficiently upon implementation
• Ability to write sophisticated, highly performant, and reliable solutions
• Excellent problem solving skills and analytical skills, valuing a scientific approach by using experimentation and critical thinking to drive and validate high quality solutions
• Experience with modern programming languages (Javascript, Python, Rust, Typescript)
• Proficiency with cloud services (preferably AWS) in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement
• Experience with maps, routing, navigation
• Experience with NLP/ML/Generative AI
• Experience with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene
• Experience with solving challenging search problems
• Experience with big data and scale, data mining and science