Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. The Software Development Engineer II will be responsible for designing and implementing search retrieval algorithms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the efficiency and accuracy of their designs to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing search retrieval algorithms across multiple search engines
- Making existing algorithms more efficient and/or highly performant
- Writing technical design documents and participating in design and code reviews
- Owning the efficiency and accuracy of your designs, as well as being responsible for overseeing your own work through the development and implementation lifecycle, ultimately delivering excellent end results
- Collaborating with other engineers, PMs and teams internationally and cross functionally to deliver a high quality experience to our customers
- Promoting a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and codes, and being available/on-call to support the health of our services
Skills
- Strong understanding of search techniques (such as information retrieval) and data structures
- Practical experience in making an algorithms perform efficiently upon implementation
- Ability to write sophisticated, highly performant, and reliable solutions
- Excellent problem solving skills and analytical skills, valuing a scientific approach by using experimentation and critical thinking to drive and validate high quality solutions
- Experience with modern programming languages (Java, C++, Rust, Typescript)
- Proficiency with cloud services (preferably AWS) in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement
- Experience with maps, routing, navigation
- Experience with NLP/ML/Generative AI
- Experience with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene
- Experience with solving challenging search problems
- Experience with big data and scale, data mining and science
Benefits
- Supportive health care
- Parental leave
- Flexibility for the things that come up in life
Company Overview
Mapbox develops a location data platform for mobile and web applications. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.mapbox.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Mapbox has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2026, 13 in 2025, 9 in 2024, 17 in 2023, 18 in 2022, 12 in 2021, 20 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.