Job Description

What this client is all about:

Maps are no longer static. Our maps represent the ever-evolving world, accessing, aggregating, and adapting anonymous data from millions of sensors and phones in real-time. This client has the exciting opportunity to power devices and products across the next frontier in location-based data, such as the Internet of Things and AR/VR.

Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, looking at a gym on ClassPass, sending snaps on Snap, tracking your personal best on Strava, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, this client is the location and maps within those apps. We’re changing how people move by mapping the world in real-time. We are the developer platform for location.

Navigation at Key with this Client:

Navigation serves customers with use cases ranging from turn-by-turn navigation in electric vehicles to delivery route planning for fleets of thousands of trucks. Our services are often at the heart of the operations of our customers’ businesses, powering experiences and operations for customers like DPD, Porsche, Doordash, and Instacart.

The Navigation team develops and operates web services powering virtually all of this client’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.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and operating significant areas of our routing services. In this role, you can expect to:

• Design and implement scalable services for our API and routing engine tiers, following best practices for deployment, resilience, and observability.
• Run and design experiments to evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing navigation products.
• Participate in end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation team; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction.
• Navigation API services interact with many internal systems at Mapbox, making this a high-visibility team with great opportunities to collaborate across the company.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of professional SDLC experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Experience engineering web services in at least one backend language, e.g., Node, Rust, C++, Go, or Java.
• Experience building highly-available API services within container-based environments (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc. on AWS). Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, triaging incidents, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement.
• Knowledge of operating systems and distributed systems (e.g., fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery, etc.)
• Experience or interest in solving geospatial problems.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• Enthusiasm for learning and knowledge sharing in a multidisciplinary environment, supported by mentorship experience and strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A rigorous approach to problem-solving, using experiments and data analysis to drive quality of service improvements.