Staff Engineer - Places API

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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 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 Developer and Consumer Team:

The Developer and Consumer team is responsible for the Foursquare technology that people outside of the company interact with to build and consume location in exciting and engaging ways. That spans from the Places API and Pilgrim SDK to our apps Foursquare City Guide, Swarm and Panel app. We spend time building features and products that give developers the tools to make location an integral part of their own applications and provide compelling user experiences centered around location to users of our apps. The Developer and Consumer team is a high impact team and a core piece of the Foursquare business with direct impact on the broader company success.

About this role

Join us and help bring our feature ideas (and your own!) off the whiteboard and into reality. Here are some high level areas you could help with:

- Improve the accuracy and efficiency of one of the premier Place search APIs in existence. Our API powers Foursquare City Guide and Swarm as well as  apps from Microsoft, Uber, Samsung, Twitter and more

- Build the server side features to support our Pilgrim SDK and its related suite of products.

- Leverage machine learning techniques to build systems which process and derive insights from billions of location data points every day

- Launch features that make cities easier to explore and continue to push the Foursquare City Guide and Swarm apps forward

- Build resilient services and tooling which drive all of our offline processing of petabytes of data

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of proven experience building software for fast growing web or mobile products
  • Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals with sound knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design
  • Strong Java or other object-oriented programming experience or, even better, experience and/or interest in functional languages (we use Scala!)
  • A plus if comfortable with React based websites or if experienced with mobile development
  • Bonus points for experience using Spark or, Kafka
  • Comfortable in a small and fast-paced startup environment
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience

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.

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