As a Location Platform Engineer, you will contribute to building and maintaining the infrastructure that efficiently fetches and processes background location data across a wide range of devices and operating systems. This role offers the opportunity to work on production systems at scale while balancing battery efficiency, privacy compliance, and OS compatibility.
We are hiring multiple engineers of varying experience levels. Please indicate your years of experience on the application form.
If you are a more senior candidate: you will take ownership of the location platform, evolve the stack to address new challenges, mentor others, and drive improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
If you are a more junior candidate: you will contribute under guidance, gaining hands-on experience with production systems, learning cross-platform infrastructure, and building foundational skills in backend and client-side development.
Develop and maintain backend services (Rust) and client-side codebases (Rust, Kotlin, Swift).
Contribute to systems that handle high traffic and large volumes of location data.
Improve scalability, reliability, and performance under guidance or independently depending on experience.
Cross-Platform Harmony
Enhance infrastructure supporting iPhone and Android devices, including various OS versions and OEM variants.
Collaborate with iOS and Android engineers to maintain a unified and seamless user experience.
Feature Implementation
Implement and optimize location data collection using Wi-Fi, network signals, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Adapt to evolving OS updates and privacy standards, balancing accuracy and battery efficiency.
Contribute to internal tooling such as analytics dashboards, debugging utilities, and per-user analysis tools.
Operational Excellence
Monitor system metrics, triage bugs, and proactively address performance issues.
Ensure compliance with privacy regulations and OS requirements.
Build strong engineering fundamentals in testing, observability, and documentation.
Continuous Learning
Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, mobile OS changes, and distributed systems best practices.
Grow technical depth and craftsmanship through mentorship, collaboration, and hands-on production experience.
Your Skills & Experience Required:
Solid foundations in low-level programming or backend development.
Proficiency or strong experience with Rust.
Experience with Kotlin or Swift.
Ability to work across backend and client-side code.
Familiarity with battery optimization techniques and privacy-aware engineering.
Interest or experience in mobile systems, location technologies, or distributed infrastructure.
Experience with iOS and Android location APIs.
Familiarity with custom ROMs or reverse engineering.
Prior experience in location services, mobile OS internals, or performance optimization.
Exposure to networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
Life at amo:
We work onsite 5 days a week at our beautiful Parisian office near Opera (Metro lines 3, 8, 9 and RER A), featuring high ceilings, balconies, and natural light.
Perks & Benefits:
Health care fully covered.
Maternity, paternity, and second parent leave with full salary.
8–9 weeks total vacation per year, including 5 state-mandated weeks, 1–2 RTT weeks, ~11 bank holidays.
Company-wide shutdowns twice a year (summer 2 weeks, winter 1 week) to recharge.
Relocation Support:
Sponsored visa process.
1 month of Airbnb covered upon arrival.
Assistance from relocation agency for permanent housing.
Help with French paperwork (social security, taxes, healthcare, etc.).
French lessons to integrate smoothly into Parisian life.
We celebrate diversity, 68% of our team is international, and we welcome candidates from all over the world.
Skills Required
- Solid foundations in low-level programming or backend development
What We Do
Welcome to amo The bike rides. The sleepovers. Your first cigarette. Gossiping about your latest crush. Being consoled when they break your heart. Discovering a new city. Re-discovering your own (at 2AM). The hungover brunches. The tears. The laughs. The love. So many of the moments that shaped us were shared with friends. And then those moments started happening online. Posting photos from last night’s party. Tagging your latest situationship. Poking your roommate (whatever that means??). It was exciting and well intentioned, but something got lost along the way. The platforms that were built to bring friends closer together became places we go to scroll through videos… of strangers. We’re entertained, but where did our friends go? A new kind of social company We believe that friendship still deserves a place online. Our first app, ID, brought a new take on the social profile, providing a collaborative board for you and your friends to express yourselves on. And our second app, Bump, is the best map for friends — giving you a new home on your phone for the people and places most important to you. With Sugar, chatting with friends goes beyond the confines of a green or blue bubble. Drop whatever you want on an unlimited canvas, turning any conversation into art. Together, the apps form the beginning of a new kind of social company. One that exists across multiple apps, but only one you. And with many more ideas for new ways to bring you closer to your friends. We’re going to experiment, build, re-build again, and no doubt get lots wrong along the way. But we hope that what we get right earns its place on your home screen — as a new collection of apps that serve you and your friends above all else. On amo, your profile, friendships, and settings are shared across the apps. Trying a new one takes no time at all as your info (and your friends!) are already waiting for you. When we have new ideas, we won’t be constrained by an ever-growing tab bar and the four corners of just one app. We’ll make something entirely new and give you the choice on whether to use it or not. Take what you need, ignore what you don’t. We feel a real responsibility when it comes to creating stuff for you and your friends — and doing so the right way. We believe that the company that survives long term in this space is the one that aligns itself closest with your best interests. So to keep ourselves accountable, we developed some principles that guide what we do.
