Software Development Engineer II - Search Geocoding

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 3.5 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. 

What We Do

Search has a lot of challenging areas for engineers to explore and grow. Mapbox search is about location and it can be highly adjustable to the end-user use cases, like navigation routable points, along the route search, or limited connectivity search. We focus our efforts on relevance, geo-context optimizations, data conflation, merging offline and online solutions, and measuring all of that with high-volume user feedback. Search is the key component of our solutions. Every route and every delivery starts with a search.

Get familiar with our search service first-hand or do the searching in the playground and find room for improvement.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an innovative and curious Senior Software Engineer to join our Search API team and help us improve the quality of our geocoding search engine and related experiences. You will help developers and their customers find the places, addresses, and businesses they search for every day.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Search API team, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and operating critical components of our search services. A key focus will be on improving and expanding functionality of our core search algorithms, as well as developing our web SDKs and internal tools with the goal of creating a robust, intuitive, and metric-driven service that makes our customers’ experience as smooth as possible.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Support the development of query understanding, document retrieval, and ranking systems that drive the quality of our core geocoding search engine

• Design and implement web SDK features and experiences, following and establishing best practices for deployment, resilience, and observability

• Build and support internal web-based tools used across the organization

• Design and implement scalable services for our API and search engines, following and establishing best practices for deployment, resiliency, and observability

• Participate in end-to-end feature implementation within the larger search organization; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases, and participate in an on-call rotation

• Evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing search products and become a well-rounded owner of what you deliver

• Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction

• Mentor other software engineers to develop all aspects of their engineering skill sets

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 4+ years of industry experience

• Strong proficiency in Javascript/Typescript, React, and modern web technology best practices

• Experience engineering web services in Node.js

• Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams

• Strong customer focus and product sensibilities, with the ability to translate those into thoughtfully designed, engineered, and measured iterations

Nice to Have Traits for This role

• Experience working on search engines (e.g. query processing, retrieval, ranking, etc.) and related libraries and platforms (e.g. ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene)

• Experience with NLP/ML/Generative AI

• Experience with Rust

• Experience building highly-available API services within container-based environments (e.g. Docker, ECS, etc. on AWS)

• Experience with geospatial data and services

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.

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $151,725 - $205,275 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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