Key skills
PythonTypescriptAWS CDKAWS ECSAWS Step FunctionsAWS LambdaAWS S3AWS RDSAWS CloudWatchAWS CloudFrontBackend Services DevelopmentRaster Geospatial DataVector Geospatial DataUnit TestingTypeScriptAWSECSLambdaS3RDSCloudFrontCloudWatchCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for location-aware businesses, providing tools for navigation and mapping. As a Software Development Engineer III on the Maps API team, you will lead engineering efforts to develop new mapping tools while ensuring the reliability of services as they grow.
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
Requirements:
- 8-10+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
- Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, Typescript, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront)
- Familiarity with both raster and vector geospatial data
- 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
- Experience building global imagery mosaics
- Experience building global terrain mosaics