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 3.9 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.
Mapbox Inc: Backend Engineer, Maps API – Washington, DC
What You'll Do
DUTIES:
- Balance rapid development of new mapping tools against the reliability of services as they scale into new
request volumes, markets and/or use cases.
- Develop and design microservices through HTTP API's for maps to serve millions of users interact with every
day like Snapchat, Strava and Weather.com.
- Identify and plan out well-defined customer-facing mapping features and solutions to complex technology
problems and microservices.
- Working on tooling, design vision and data curation to serve the customers with mapping data instantly.
- Promoting a culture of operational excellence by building a testing infrastructure to serve 99.99% of customer
requests.
- Monitoring globally deployed systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health
of our services.
- Reduce technical debt, while knowledge-sharing, and invest in teammates' health and happiness, while
optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity.
- Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.
- Other duties as assigned.
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or
closely related technical field and 3 years of experience developing solutions to complex technology problems OR
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related
technical field followed by 5 years of experience developing solutions to complex technology problems.
- Must also have 3 years of experience with:
- Software development.
- Cloud Infrastructure.
- Web API Development
- Position may be up to 100% telework and may be performed from anywhere within the US.
- LOCATION: 740 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 SALARY: $165,173 - $170,000/year
- TO APPLY: Email resume to mapboxcareers@mapbox.com & reference MB103.
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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