Software Development Engineer II, Search

The Search Geocoding team is responsible for building the best location-based search engine that empowers customers that require an intelligent Maps search solutions to find places and points of interest as quickly and with fewer keystrokes as possible. The Search Geocoding team has direct ownership of Mapbox's geocoding search engine including Conflation, Query Understanding, document retrieval, and overall ranking.

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 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 (Javascript, Python, Rust, Java, Typescript, C++, Go); Proficiency with cloud services (preferably AWS) in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement

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