Senior Software Engineer - Location Platform | Data Backend

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.

About the team

Foursquare's Location Platform Data Backend engineering team manages data ETL processes for several key FSQ products. We work with many other groups including product, data services, and client success. Our team develops and manages our Attribution, Targeting, OCF products, as well as new products that are yet to be released.  We pride ourselves on our customer focus and the ability to continually deliver value to our users. 

About the role

This role requires a deep background in distributed systems to build the core data pipelines and products. 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 like Delta Lake, Hadoop, Kinetica, Solr, Spark, Kafka, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Airflow, Luigi, EMR, Databricks, etc.

In this role, you’ll 

• Develop and maintain Foursquare's data backend for our location platform products
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Customer Success teams to design, implement, and maintain large scale data products
• Mentor other engineers on the team
• Contribute to and participate in our culture of collaboration and excellence

What you’ll need 

• 5+ years of software engineering
• 3+ years of experience with database systems 
• Professional experience in at least one of Scala, Python, Java
• Experience with SQL
• Experience building applications on top of a large-scale data warehouse
• Expert knowledge of Big Data and AWS concepts (Lambda, S3, EC2, EMR, Spark)
• Experience working in a fast-paced programming environment with hands-on experience in continuous deployment and agile methodologies
• A plus if you have analytical skills, a passion for extracting insights from immense amount of data
• Another plus if you have experience with Dockerization
• Plus if you have experience with Airflow
• Experience building and supporting data systems used by other Engineering teams
• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match
• Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function
• Professional Development - annual learning stipend for your career development goals
• Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot 
• Employee Resource Groups - to help you stay connected
• Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning April 1, 2024. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.

At 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