Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, powered bydedicated 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 the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

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 (Unfolded Studio).

About the team:

Foursquare’s Visits team is responsible for inferring the real-world behaviors of millions of consumers every day. We write software and manage systems for performing geospatial analysis at scale and provide our inferences on time to internal and external customers. Foursquare’s Visits power location solutions for some of the world’s largest companies as well as Foursquare’s market-leading Targeting and Attribution products.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Manage and coach a team of talented engineers
• Own the team's technical roadmap and direction, working closely with Product Management, Program Management, Client Success, Data Engineering, and stakeholders to achieve company goals
• Lead the development of scalable and robust batch processing systems for applying machine learning algorithms for geospatial inference
• Contribute hands-on engineering solutions as needed
• Identify and track critical diagnostic metrics for the health and growth of our core products
• Partner with engineering, product teams, and department stakeholders to drive forward broader engineering and company initiatives

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years managing an engineering team
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey intricate systems and logic to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to promote employee engagement and align teams toward company goals and vision
• Proficient in capacity planning and project management, ensuring consistent and predictable deliveries
• Experience recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and developing new team members
• Track record of reliably shipping and scaling high-quality products as an individual contributor and manager
• Excellent problem solving and systems debugging skills
• Hands-on experience with professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations
• Understand Hadoop processing systems like MapReduce and Spark
• Familiar with deployment process and monitoring tools
• Excellent organization, prioritization, and time management skills

Perks and benefits:

• Learning and development programs from individual contributors to managers
• Individual, professional coaching for all full-time employees
• Flexible time off - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Home office setup: you get all necessary hardware and internet reimbursement 
• Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven
• Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected

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.