Software Development Engineer II, API
MapboxLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted November 20, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Mapbox is a leading real-time location platform offering comprehensive tools for navigation and mapping. With a suite of services including maps, data, design, and navigation APIs, Mapbox empowers organizations to create customized, immersive experiences that delight customers. Its flexibility, security, and privacy compliance have attracted over 3.5 million registered developers.
Job Description
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineer for the Navigation, Traffic team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
- 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
- A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
- High quality mindset — write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Parental leave
- Flexibility for the things that come up in life
- Innovating on how we think about supporting our people