Staff Engineer – Location Platform | Data Services

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 Staff 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

This role requires a deep background in distributed systems to build the core data services, which power multiple location analytics products to improve advertising campaign effectiveness. We want you to be ready to drive team innovation and be eager to learn new skills on a cutting edge platform. The team uses a variety of tools, technologies, and languages to build software (e.g., Delta Lake, Presto, Kinetica, Solr, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Airflow, Luigi, EMR, Databricks, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, etc.), but experience with equivalent ones will do just fine.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL

• Develop and maintain Foursquare’s data services and APIs for our location platform
• Build scalable and reliable applications to run on Amazon AWS
• Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams on designing, implementing, and maintaining large scale data querying services
• Lead cross-team coordination and mentor other engineers on the team