Senior Software Engineer, Mapping at ALSO

On-site - Palo Alto, United States

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ALSO is an electric mobility company focused on creating small EVs and reimagining how people move. As a Senior Software Engineer, Mapping, you will lead the development of our end‑to‑end navigation experience, architecting cloud, mobile, and on‑vehicle systems for intelligent, vehicle‑specific routing and real‑time navigation.

Salary

USD 165,000 - 210,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Strong backend engineering experience in a production-grade environment, ideally using Golang and AWS.
  • Proven ability to architect and ship complex systems in a fast-moving startup or 0→1 product environment.
  • Deep understanding of real-time or near real-time system design—especially in latency-sensitive use cases.
  • Extensive experience with mapping and navigation platforms and integration (e.g., Google Maps APIs, Mapbox, HERE, TomTom).
  • Excellent technical judgment and a system design mindset that balances robustness, performance, and maintainability.
  • Comfort working cross-functionally with firmware, mobile, and product stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with BLE, GPS, and/or hardware-software interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Own the implementation of our flagship navigation experience, from routing to rendering.
  • Integrate with external mapping/navigation APIs to power route planning, turn-by-turn directions, and rich map metadata.
  • Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to define the navigation system interface between bike hardware, the mobile app, and cloud services.
  • Design robust, low-latency APIs and cloud systems that handle location, routing logic, vehicle-specific optimizations, and data synchronization.
  • Enable critical edge cases like offline fallback, route recalculation, device reconnects, and display rendering on constrained hardware.
  • Work alongside the firmware engineer to define BLE protocols and vector graphic rendering constraints for the bike’s microcontroller-powered display.
  • Shape our engineering culture and development practices through documentation, mentoring, and hands‑on leadership.

Technologies

GolangAWSGoogle Maps APIsMapboxHERETomTomBLEGPSHardware-software interfaces

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