Software Development Engineer III, Android, Maps SDK

Role Description

In this role, you will play a critical part in defining architectural direction, leading technical initiatives, and designing scalable features. Your primary focus will be on developing innovative solutions that integrate multiple Mapbox SDKs (Navigation, Maps, and Search), enabling customer applications to deploy quickly and efficiently.

• 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.
• Designing 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.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated history of shipping complex Android applications and 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 is a plus.
• Familiarity with or a desire to learn more about C++ is a plus.

What We Value

• 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 supportive health care, parental leave, and flexibility for personal matters.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.