CareerPlan

(Senior) Backend Engineer, Maps

LondonFull-time2026-05-11 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · CyprusVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Building spatial intelligence for a premium ride-hailing platform, handling road matching, low-latency ETA predictions, and processing thousands of coordinates per second.

Role type

Mid/Senior Backend Engineer (Maps)

Builds

Microservices for road matching, ETA prediction, and journey tracking for a ride-hailing platform.

Domain

Transportation / Geospatial / Ride-hailing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, Thrift, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, routing algorithms, map-matching techniques, geospatial data processing

Preferred skills

C++, OSRM, OpenStreetMap, driver-side navigation intuition

Technologies

Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, Thrift, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, OSRM, OpenStreetMap

Responsibilities

Write high-quality, performant code in Go; Implement new microservices and migrate legacy services; Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists; Optimize systems for latency and reliability under heavy load.

Seniority

Mid/Senior, hands-on IC