Software Development Engineer III, Android, Navigation SDK

The Navigation SDK team at Mapbox builds frameworks and applications for navigation across Android, iOS, and Linux. This role involves defining architectural direction, leading technical initiatives, and designing scalable features, focusing on integrating Mapbox SDKs for efficient customer application deployment. You will also engage in hands-on development, ensuring high-quality standards, designing user-friendly APIs, and optimizing performance.

Must Have

• Define and oversee large-scale, cross-functional projects.
• Drive improvements in development processes, code quality, and best practices.
• Engage in technical decisions affecting long-term strategic direction and scalability.
• Act as a technical mentor and resource for the team.
• Design expressive and user-friendly APIs for SDK developers.
• Deliver high-quality features in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Implement improvements to SDK functionality and developer experience.
• Dive into cross-platform implementations for seamless integration.
• Debug, profile, and optimize performance issues.
• Demonstrated history of shipping complex Android applications and SDKs.
• Experience with native technologies like 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.

Good to Have

• Experience debugging and profiling to resolve performance issues.
• Familiarity with or desire to learn C++.

Perks & Benefits

• Supportive health care
• Parental leave
• Flexibility for life events

What We Do

The Navigation SDK team builds frameworks and applications that power navigation everywhere. Customers of our SDK include automotive, logistics and consumer apps on Android, iOS and Linux, small and large. Our developers build apps and navigation experiences that top the App Store and Play Store rankings, and we are constantly working together to help them build what’s next, whether that’s an Augmented Reality app, an AI powered experience, a popular consumer app, or an autonomous driving experience.

What You'll Do

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 SDKs (Navigation, Maps, and Search), enabling customer applications to deploy quickly and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will include:

• 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.

In addition, you’ll actively participate 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.
• Dive into the cross-platform implementations underlying our frameworks to ensure seamless integration and functionality.
• Debugging, profiling, and optimizing performance issues.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 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

In addition to our core values,

which are not unique to this position and are necessary for 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.

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