Location Platform Engineer

About the role

amo is hiring multiple Location Platform Engineers in Paris to build and maintain the infrastructure that fetches and processes background location data across many devices and operating systems. The role balances battery efficiency, privacy compliance and OS compatibility. Senior candidates take ownership of the platform, evolve the stack, mentor others and drive improvements in accuracy, efficiency and compliance; junior candidates learn under guidance, working on production systems and building backend and client-side skills.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services (Rust) and client-side codebases (Rust, Kotlin, Swift)
• Contribute to systems handling high traffic and large volumes of location data, improving scalability, reliability and performance
• Enhance infrastructure for iPhone and Android, including various OS versions and OEM variants, and work with iOS and Android engineers for a unified experience
• Implement and optimize location data collection using Wi-Fi, network signals, GPS and Bluetooth, adapting to OS updates and privacy standards
• Build internal tooling such as analytics dashboards, debugging utilities and per-user analysis tools
• Monitor system metrics, triage bugs and ensure compliance with privacy regulations and OS requirements
• Build engineering fundamentals in testing, observability and documentation, and stay up to date with mobile OS changes and distributed systems

Required profile

• Solid foundations in low-level programming or backend development
• Ability to work across backend and client-side code
• Interest or experience in mobile systems, location technologies or distributed infrastructure
• Experience with iOS and Android location APIs
• Nice to have: familiarity with custom ROMs or reverse engineering, prior experience in location services or performance optimization, exposure to networking fundamentals and distributed systems

Required skills

• Rust (nice to have)
• Kotlin or Swift (nice to have)
• Battery optimization and privacy-aware engineering

What we offer

• Onsite work 5 days a week in a Paris office near Opera
• Health care fully covered
• Maternity, paternity and second-parent leave with full salary
• 8-9 weeks of vacation per year, including 5 state-mandated weeks, 1-2 RTT weeks and about 11 bank holidays
• Company-wide shutdowns twice a year (summer 2 weeks, winter 1 week)
• Sponsored visa process, 1 month of Airbnb covered, relocation agency assistance and help with French paperwork
• French lessons