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.
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 BMW, Toyota, Rivian, Instacart, and Strava.
The Navigation team develops and operates 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. Read more about Mapbox Navigation on our blog
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.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Navigation API team you will be spending a lot of time working on a state of the art routing engine for Electric Vehicles (EV) mostly written in Rust. Along with that is a constellation of supporting services which power the data consumption and storage of the routing data.
Projects you might take part of:
Up-to-the-minute live data integration to improve EV routing qualities even further
In this role, you will be expected to:
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Passion about programming and having a strong focus on quality aspects. Implementation of automated tests.
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
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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