Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. WHAT WE DO The Studio team is a warm, supportive, and versatile group of software engineers and product designers. We love finding systematic solutions to hard problems, and, in the process, inventing the future of how people interact with location. Beautiful, intelligent, well designed maps are a cornerstone of what makes Mapbox maps special, and the Studio team creates tools to make that happen. Check out our Studio product https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio! As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow. WHAT YOU'LL DO Mapbox is looking for a talented and innovated Software Development Engineer II to join our Studio team. As a Software Development Engineer II (Fullstack), you can expect to: - Lead contributions to Mapbox Studio, our flagship map design tool. Studio is a complex React / Redux app that requires fluency in Javascript, Typescript, and web technologies. Ship simple, approachable, performant, testable code. - Facilitate and make informed technical decisions that drive the long term vision for maps at Mapbox. - Build workflow tools that enable our map designers to create beautiful maps faster and easier. - Solve complex architecture problems in an extensible, maintainable way. Bring clarity to complex technical problems across the organization. - Participate in the design process by listening to users, attending design critiques, and providing guidance and feedback informed by a deep understanding of technical constraints. - Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity. - Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services. WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE IMPORTANT TRAITS FOR THIS ROLE - Expertise in Modern Frontend Architecture: You have a proven track record of building full-featured client-side applications using React and TypeScript (ES6+), with a deep understanding of HTML5 and CSS3. - Backend Infrastructure: 3+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable high volume low latency backend services and CI/CD pipelines. - Performance Optimization: A sophisticated understanding of frontend architecture for large-scale, data-intensive applications, with a focus on memory management and rendering efficiency. - AI Usage: Proficiency using AI as a sounding board and productivity multiplier while maintaining a trust but verify approach auditing AI-generated code for security, performance, and architectural integrity. - State Management Mastery: You are proficient in designing complex application and component states using solutions like Redux, ensuring scalable and maintainable data flow. - Fullstack Integration: You have extensive experience integrating RESTful APIs and a functional understanding of cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS. - Quality Assurance: You are comfortable working with testing frameworks such as Playwright or Jest to ensure code reliability and performance. - Operational Excellence: You take pride in the long-term health of your systems, including monitoring metrics, triaging regressions, and proactively resolving customer-facing issues. - Autonomy and Execution: You can independently navigate the full development lifecycle, translating design specifications into high-quality, production-ready code. - Collaborative Mindset: You possess a strong desire to mentor peers, engage in pair programming, and document your expertise to elevate the entire engineering team. NICE TO HAVE TRAITS FOR THIS ROLE - Geospatial Expertise: Prior experience working with web mapping technologies or geospatial data visualization. WHAT WE VALUE In addition to our core values https://www.mapbox.com/about/values/, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox 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. Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $160,650 - $217,350 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the