Software Development Engineer II, Search Box

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. POI Search & Relevance team is responsible for building the best general, location-based search engine that empowers the drivers in vehicles, couriers in package delivery and many other people with different use cases that require an intelligent Maps search solution to find places and points of interest as quickly and with fewer keystrokes as possible.

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

Requirements

Strong understanding of search techniques (such as information retrieval) and data structure; Practical experience in making an algorithm 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 at least one modern programming languages such as JAVA, C++, Rust; Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement; Fluent communication in English with a sense for listening to others as well as getting your message across concisely; Conversational Japanese proficiency; Familiarity with the Japanese address system

Nice to have

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