Foursquare is hiring a
Remote Senior Software Engineer Backend
\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 the worldโs largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.\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 (Unfolded Studio).\n\nAbout the Team: \n\nThe Unfolded Team at Foursquare set out to bring the most advanced geospatial technologies to the world that is powerful, beautiful, and easy to use. The team is building a geospatial analytics platform for accessing, merging, enriching, analyzing, and visualizing spatial data. Members of Unfolded are authors of a suite of leading open source geospatial technologies - kepler.gl, deck.gl and H3. By joining the team, you will have an opportunity to work with some world-class geospatial engineers in the industry.\n\nAbout the position:\n\nReporting to our Head of Backend Engineering, the Backend Engineer will serve an important role to build advanced analytics services in Unfolded cloud and on-prem / private cloud offerings. The ideal candidate is comfortable working independently, able to demonstrate initiative and professionalism and attention to detail, and mentor other engineers over a distance. This position is full-time and can be remote.\n\nIn this role, you'll:\n\n\nBuild REST microservices to query, serve, and analyze geospatial data.\n\nDesign and build scalable, performant, and maintainable services to power the Unfolded Cloud\n\nChampion backend engineering best practices\n\nWork with the backend lead, customers, product teams, and sales teams to understand customer needs and translate them into backend engineering projects\n\nManage project timelines, implementation design specifications, engineering system diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems.\n\nMaintain and improve existing code with a pride of ownership.\n\n\n\n\nTechnologies\n\n\nCloud stack: AWS and Google Cloud Platform\n\nCloud deployment: Kubernetes, containers and Docker, Helm\n\nLanguage: TypeScript (Node) or Python\n\nData stores: MySQL, Redis, GCS or S3\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll need:\n\n\nA minimum of 3-5 yearsโ experience\n\nComfortable working remotely\n\nComfortable with Slack and Google Workspace apps (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Hangouts etc)\n\nAt ease with technology, able to quickly pick up new platforms and troubleshoot\n\nExcellent written and oral communication skills\n\nSound judgment, a high degree of professionalism, and the ability to maintain confidentiality\n\nProactive, able to take initiative and work independently\n\nExcellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks\n\n\n\n\nNice To Haves\n\n\nExperience with other Big Data technologies, (BigQuery, Snowflake, HDFS, Hive, Presto) Arrow, Parquet is always appreciated\n\nExperience with geospatial data\n\nExperience with spatial indexing systems: H3, S2, geohash\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and perks:\n\n\n* We are a fully flexible company that allows you to work from any location in Serbia where we have an office.\n\n* Competitive compensation.\n\n* 20 days of paid vacation.\n\n* Paid sick leave.\n\n* Budget for education.\n\n\n\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\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Marketing, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
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
\n\n#Location\nNovi Sad, South Baฤka, Serbia