[Hiring] Software Development Engineer II, Android, Navigation SDK @Mapbox

Role Description

We are looking for smart, fast-learning team players who are driven by the idea of enhancing and developing core and essential components of current and future implementations of the navigation ecosystem here at Mapbox.

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.

What You'll Do

• Defining and overseeing the implementation of large-scale, cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Ensuring quality by driving improvements in our development processes, code quality standards, and best practices across teams.
• Engaging in technical conversations and decisions that affect long-term strategic direction and scalability.
• Acting as a technical mentor and resource for the team, fostering professional development and knowledge-sharing.
• Participating in hands-on development work to maintain high-quality standards across our SDKs:
• Design expressive and user-friendly APIs for developers using our SDKs.
• Delivering high-quality features in collaboration with peers and cross-functional teams.
• Implementing improvements to our SDK's functionality and developer experience.
• Diving into the cross-platform implementations underlying our frameworks to ensure seamless integration and functionality.
• Debugging, profiling, and optimizing performance issues.
• Writing clean, fast code to implement new features and improve existing functionality.
• Contributing to the architecture of our SDKs, using the best practices of software engineering.
• Improving the product’s performance, stability, maintainability, and simplicity.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated history of shipping complex Android applications and/or SDKs.
• Experience with native technologies, such as Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with testing methodologies and frameworks.
• Focus on usability and great user experience.
• Desire to build frameworks and developer tools.
• Desire to learn and to teach.
• Passion to earn and keep customer trust.
• Readiness to go deep in the Android stack and navigate AOSP code when needed.
• Experience debugging and profiling to resolve performance issues.
• Familiarity with or a desire to learn more about C++.
• Broad experience in software development.
• Knowledge of writing cross-platform code is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams, with the ability to communicate fluently in English.

What We Value

• High-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• Individuals being their whole selves at work, supported by health care, parental leave, and flexibility for life events.
• An environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful.
• A commitment to growing a diverse team and encouraging people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.