Director of Engineering (Platform)
About Us
Radar is connecting digital experiences to the physical world with a location platform for every app, every device, and every developer. We help enterprises like T-Mobile, American Eagle Outfitters, and Zappos increase engagement and improve operations, powering impactful location-based experiences for over 100 million end-users.
Our team has backgrounds at companies like Google Maps, Foursquare, and Facebook. We are backed by top investors including Accel and Two Sigma Ventures.
We are remote-friendly and currently have 42 employees with headquarters in Brooklyn, NY.
About the role
We're looking for a Director of Engineering (Platform) to own the Radar backend infrastructure that supports 300M+ api calls per day, peaking at 10,000 qps, from 100M devices over the past year. This includes api's, databases, caches, data lake, dev ops tooling and SRE. At its core, Radar is a data-intensive, high-throughput application, so reliable and global infrastructure is critical.
You will report to our CTO.
What you’ll do:
- Grow the Platform team from a 2-person to a 10-person team by the end of 2022, introducing a second layer of management as needed
- Create team roadmaps, solicit and synthesize feedback and present at company all-hands forums
- Help the team stay connected to the needs of our customers
- Support the team's deployment of Terraform for IaC
- Support the team's multi-region strategy, going from 1 region to multiple regions in 2022
- Support the team's quality work on PlaceRank and Radar's Places point-of-interest database
You have:
- Worked on a high-throughput data intensive production application
- Lead high-performing infrastructure teams
- Worked at a scaling startup that values moving quickly
- Worked on an AWS based application
- Familiarity with Docker, MongoDB, Redis, Athena, Airflow, Typescript, Python, and Scala
- Familiarity with Search and Ranking types of infrastructure
- Familiarity with, or a desire to learn Geo Engineering
You’ll be working with:
- Tim Julien, CTO
- Jeff Kao, Senior Staff Engineer
- Craig Kochis, Engineering Manager
Perks:
- Remote-friendly
- Competitive compensation package and equity plan
- Medical, dental, and vision plans with 100% premiums covered for you
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Flexible work hours and vacation policy
- Free CitiBike membership
- Monthly fitness reimbursement
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
