Foursquare is hiring a
Remote Staff Engineer Location Platform Data Services
\nAbout Foursquare \n\nFoursquare 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, Foursquareโs location tech stack is being utilized by our mobile apps CityGuide and Swarm, as well as the worldโs largest enterprises and most recognizable brands, like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb and others.\n\nFoursquareโs 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).\n\nAbout the Position\n\nFoursquare 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.\n\nAbout the team\n\nFoursquare's Location Platform Data Services engineering team creates and owns various Data Services and APIs for both external and internal usages. We consider ourselves the programmable gateway of Foursquare's rich and valuable data set. Working with many other groups including product, data engineering, and client success, our team is the nexus between our API clients and Foursquare's location platform. Our team owns APIs, queryable data sets and data services that the world's largest brands rely on to move their business forward. We pride ourselves on our customer focus and the ability to continually deliver value to our users. \n\nAbout the role\n\nThis 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.\n\nIn this role, youโll \n\n\n* Develop and maintain Foursquare's data services and APIs for our location platform\n\n* Build scalable and reliable applications to run on Amazon AWS\n\n* Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams on designing, implementing, and maintaining large scale data querying services\n\n* Lead cross-team coordination and mentor other engineers on the team\n\n\n\n\nWhat youโll need \n\n\n* 8-10 years of software engineering\n\n* 5 years of experience with Big Data technologies\n\n* 5 years of tech lead experience\n\n* Professional experience in at least one of Java, Scala, Python, or Ruby\n\n* Experience building applications on top of large-scale data warehouse\n\n* Expert knowledge of Big Data and AWS concepts (Lambda, S3, EC2, SAM )\n\n* Experience working in a fast-paced programming environment with hands-on experience in continuous deployment and agile methodologies\n\n* A plus if you have analytical skills, a passion for extracting insights from immense amount of data, and have experience with Dockerization\n\n* Experience building and supporting data systems used by other Engineering teams\n\n* Your own unique talents! If you donโt meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n\n\n* Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it!\n\n* Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance\n\n* Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match\n\n* Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function\n\n* Professional Development - annual learning stipend for your career development goals\n\n* Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot \n\n* Employee Resource Groups - to help you stay connected\n\n* Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning April 1, 2024. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.\n\n\n\n\nAt Foursquare, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry and market standards. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and specific office location.\n\nThe annual total cash compensation range is $148,000 - $242,250, however actual salaries can vary based on a candidateโs qualifications, skills and competencies, as well as location. \n\nSalary is just one component of Foursquareโs total compensation package, which includes restricted stock units, multiple health insurance options, and a wide range of benefits!\n\nThings to knowโฆ\n\nFoursquare 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.\n\nFoursquare 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.\n\nFoursquare Privacy Policy\n\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n#LI-JDM \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, API, Mobile, Marketing and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n
$55,000 — $110,000/year\n
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๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n