Software Development Engineer II, Navigation, Traffic at Mapbox

Role overview

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.

Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineer for the Navigation, Traffic team. We develop and maintain the web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics. This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate software or platform systems for navigation and traffic map software.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and customer stakeholders.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Translate complex requirements into maintainable production systems.

Qualifications

• Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineer for the Navigation, Traffic team. We develop and maintain the web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics. This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.
• As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.
• Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub
• Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives
• 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
• High quality mindset — write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production
• Nice to Have Traits for This Role
• 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.

Technology in this role

• Python: Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3) Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives Able to perform independently all the development tasks, .
• TypeScript: Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3) Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives Able to perform independently all the development tasks, .
• AWS: This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and .
• SQL: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
• CAN: As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Software Development Engineer II, Navigation, Traffic position at Mapbox is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “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.

Benefits

• Location and remote arrangement as stated in the official posting.
• Opportunity to work on mapping, financial technology or AI platform products.

About Mapbox

Mapbox provides developer tools and cloud services for maps, navigation, search and geospatial data. Its platform combines map rendering, location search, routing and navigation capabilities with continuously updated geographic information that organizations can embed in applications, websites, vehicles and logistics systems.

The company serves product teams across areas such as mobility, automotive, delivery, travel and enterprise software. Its work sits at the intersection of geospatial data, developer platforms and real-time user experiences, with an engineering environment that can involve large data pipelines, SDKs, rendering, APIs and distributed systems. The job posting identifies which of those areas and tools apply to the specific position.

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