Senior Software Engineer – Places Reporter

at  Foursquare

ABOUT FOURSQUARE

Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by our mobile apps CityGuide and Swarm, as well as the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands, like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb and others.
Foursquare’s flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK); data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Studio).

ABOUT THE POSITION

Foursquare is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! While we would prefer candidates based in or around our office hubs in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, or San Francisco, we’re also open to considering remote applicants for this role

THINGS TO KNOW…

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.
Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The role of a Senior Software Software Engineer on the Places Reporter team at Foursquare involves working on the data ingestion pipeline infrastructure that the entire Places product is built upon. They will be responsible for implementing new features and enhancements to Foursquare’s core Places systems and data pipelines.
They will work with the Product Management and Design teams to determine requirements and implementation specifications. Collaboration with the Product Management and the broader Places engineering teams is crucial to enable a top-notch customer experience that allows Foursquare to meet its data freshness and data quality goals.
The successful candidate takes responsibility for the development, deployment, and support of Foursquare’s production systems. They also participate in technical reviews to ensure designs efficiently meet product requirements and user needs. The role requires Java or other object-oriented programming experience and a proactive approach to work.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the systems which facilitate getting data into our places dataset and the processes by which we handle inputs and turn them into actionable data made available to the rest of the team
• Maintain and innovate on the ingestion components and pipelines
• Collaborate with other teams, to ensure the smooth operation and integration of systems
• Understand how policies and processes interact with technical objectives and actively participate in shaping process and policy
• Contribute to broad architectural guidance to meet strategic organizational and business needs that are successfully adopted. Ships large systems, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure