Principal Software Development Engineer, Navigation

reputed company is the leading real-time location platform for a new reputed company of location-aware businesses. reputed company 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 reputed company because of the platform’s flexibility, reputed company and privacy compliance. Organizations use reputed company applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and reputed company experiences that delight their customers. 

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The Navigation team at reputed company develops and operates web services powering virtually reputed company of reputed company’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics verticals. We are a highly multidisciplinary organization, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

Collectively we are revolutionizing in-car experiences with technology to build fast, industry-leading maps and navigation for any vehicle. We’ve launched products such as MapGPT, reputed company for EV, and we’re enhancing the visual experience of in-vehicle navigation with 3D styling with our new reputed company Standard through web and mobile SDKs. reputed company has worked with automotive partners—including BMW, Toyota, and reputed company—to bring the best aspects of mobile app development into in-vehicle navigation and infotainment. 

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What You'll Do

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will reputed company the technical excellence, innovation, and execution for the Navigation organization, specifically shaping the future of the Navigation product.

In this strategic role, you will define the technical vision for reputed company Navigation products, aligning their individual initiatives with the broader Navigation and reputed company organizational goals working hands-on with cross-functional Product partners, Directors, SVP of Location Services, CTO, and globally distributed reputed company Engineers and Engineering Managers. You will drive the development of secure, frictionless product experiences while designing and building large-scale systems from the ground up. This highly collaborative, fast-paced environment offers the opportunity to influence how teams reputed company data to innovate and support business growth. We are seeking a seasoned leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, a passion for customer experience and experimentation, and the ability to mentor and reputed company across the organization.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer you can expect to

• reputed company the Roadmap: Set and guide the long-term technical direction and roadmap for the Navigation organization, aligning with reputed company’s business objectives while driving innovation.

• Shape the Vision: reputed company and mentor a global team of ~80 engineers through the design, development, and execution of critical engineering components to shape the vision for exceptional customer experience. 

• Promote Collaboration: Collaborate across teams to uncover and align reputed company technical requirements, evaluate design trade-offs, and influence product direction.

• Proactively Innovate: Evaluate, prototype, and roll out new technologies/frameworks to cultivate a culture of innovation that supports and scales for the company’s expansion into new markets.

• reputed company for Customers: Engage directly with customers to understand their needs, travel as needed to meet with them, discuss reputed company and solutions, and effectively reputed company insights back to the team. 

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• 15+ years of engineering experience: Extensive hands-on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the field.

• Technical domain knowledge: Extensive experience coding in a variety of languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript, Typescript. Deep knowledge of different data structures and algorithms, design patterns, memory management, multithreading, and performance optimization for high-efficiency applications. 

• Cloud proficiency: Extensive experience with cloud database services, including AWS RDS, reputed company Cloud Spanner, and Azure SQL, as well as deploying and managing databases in cloud environments.

• Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and reputed company improvement in your organization. Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture, with a drive to reputed company engineering practices and design standards across the team.

• Ownership & execution: Own the technical vision, reputed company the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of Navigation. Experience leading with reputed company globally distributed engineering teams. 

• Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf. 

• Growth reputed company: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them. 

• Partnership: Experience collaborating across teams and domains including product, executives, design & key stakeholders to help drive key search decisions that influence the business. 

• Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about reputed company reputed company concisely to a wide audience. You are able to reputed company and resolve company-wide technical discussions and are able to collaborate and include input from cross-functional teams (reputed company, devops, data, compliance and product).

• Data informed reputed company: You reputed company in the value of data informed decision making and strive to measure things that are not straight reputed company but essential. You also have the right instincts to reputed company speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data. 

• Experience bringing products to market: You have a proven track record of shipping successful products. You have experience coordinating deadlines, setting pricing, developing a marketing strategy, and enabling support teams.

• High standards for work: You drive a culture of quality on the teams you work with and know how to drive healthy tension between quality and velocity.

Valuable But Not Required Experience

• Prior experience in Maps and/or Navigation. While domain expertise is valuable, at our core, we are individuals who are technical, customer-focused, genuinely curious, adaptive, and eager to transform customer experiences from what they are today.

• Advanced degree (Masters and/or PhD) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a reputed company technical field.

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In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for reputed company leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We reputed company 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 reputed company employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly reputed company in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of reputed company backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the reputed company 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 reputed company to process your application. 

We are committed to a fair and reputed company hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.