Engineering Manager, Directions at Mapbox

Engineering Manager, Directions

Mapbox, Washington, D.C. or San Francisco CA

Build experiences for exploring the world

Maps are no longer static. Our maps represent the ever-evolving world, accessing, aggregating, and adapting anonymous data from millions of sensors and phones in real-time. Mapbox has the exciting opportunity to power devices and products across the next frontier in location-based data, such as The Internet of Things and AR/VR.

Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, looking at a gym on ClassPass, sending your snaps on Snap, tracking your personal best on Strava, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps. We’re changing how people move by live-mapping the world. We are the developer platform for location.

What We Do

The Directions team is responsible for Mapbox’s Directions, Map Matching, and Isochrone APIs and all the infrastructure associated with them. We’re proud builders of solutions to problems in the routing space for industries like auto, logistics, outdoors and more. We solve complex geospatial data problems and leverage statistical analysis alongside live and historical traffic profiles to get users from A → B as efficiently as possible. Our customers are primarily developers, like us. When they're successful, we're successful.

What You'll Do

Mapbox is looking for a highly technical manager to lead and mentor some of the best developers in the business. You will be responsible for Mapbox’s route planning with turn-by-turn directions capabilities.

In this role, you will continue to grow your technical leadership while you:

Provide strategic direction and innovation in the design and implementation of the Directions’ suite of capabilities
Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the team’s capabilities
Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team along in the decision-making
Work closely with product to figure out what our customers need, and develop a strategic plan to address their pain
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, inclusion and data-driven decisions on the team
Help your team members and direct reports learn new skills, either through your own guidance or by proactively finding them mentors
Develop the long-term business strategy and drive the team’s work product

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

Experience leading and mentoring a medium sized team
Experience driving projects towards deadlines
Experience designing large scale distributed systems
Depth in multiple software languages applied to systems and scripting
Experience leading code reviews
Experience building with Cloud Infra, AWS preferred
Know your way around Linux-based operating systems
Believer in making data-driven decisions
Comfortable giving (and receiving) critical feedback
Strong emotional intelligence and consensus building skills are a must

Of course, if you don’t have experience with every single item on the list, that’s okay. We’re much more concerned with getting the right person for the job, rather than one who checks all the boxes.

What We Value

In addition to our core 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.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants, which is linked here. Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application.

Mapbox is an EEO Employer - Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

About Mapbox

Mapbox is the location data platform for mobile and web applications. We provide building blocks to add location features like maps, search, and navigation into any experience you create. We’re changing the way people move around cities and explore our world. Through the apps Mapbox powers, we reach more than 300 million people each month. Location is built into the fabric of our daily experiences. Whether you’re exploring a city with Lonely Planet, sharing with friends on Snapchat, seeing if it’s going to rain on Weather.com, tracking breaking news on Bloomberg, or checking your ETA in Lyft — location is essential to every one of these applications, and they’re powered by Mapbox. We craft beautiful maps and developer-friendly location data, APIs, and SDKs so that you’re free to focus on designing, building, and developing your application. Our open-source tools let analytics companies understand big geo data, drone companies publish flyovers, real estate sites visualize properties, satellite companies process cloud-free imagery, and insurance companies track assets. Mapbox proudly embraces our open-source roots. We work in the open and release as much code as possible. We believe it’s the right thing for people, technology, and business.