Data Engineer, Foursquare
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3+ days a week in office
Location data platform
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Location data platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create technology that constructs meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places.
Role
Who you are
- BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in software development, working with production-level code
- Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages we use: Python, Java or Scala
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
- Self-driven and feel comfortable learning without much hand-holding
- Eagerness to learn new technologies
- Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!
Desirable
- Experience with relational or document-oriented database systems, such as Postgres and MongoDB and experience writing SQL queries
- Experience with cloud infrastructure services, such as AWS(S3, EMR, EC2, Glue, Athena, SQS, SNS) or GCP
- Experience with data processing technologies and tools, such as Spark, Hadoop(HDFS, Hive, MapReduce), Athena, Airflow, Luigi
What the job involves
- As a data engineer on the Places team, you will contribute to the platform services and pipelines that facilitate large-scale data ingestion and governance.
- You will ship software with high visibility and of strategic importance to Foursquare, directly impacting revenue and the experience of our customers and Open Source community.
- You will focus on implementing and productionization of our ML models, working closely with our Data Science team to improve model performance and scalability
- The Places team owns all components of our places dataset: from ingestion and data expansion, to delivery mechanisms like our APIs.
- We own and iterate on the core building blocks of our customer and Open Source Places Product offering, which lays the foundation for Fourquare’s other products and services
- Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, automated data processing workflows
- Build big data processing pipelines using Spark and Airflow
- Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture
- Write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production
- Write, deploy, and monitor services for data access by systems across our infrastructure
- Participate in on-call rotation duties
- Act as a force multiplier, conducting code reviews, and coordinating cross-team efforts
- Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, code quality, and CI/CD pipelines
Our take
Foursquare was originally built as an app to make use of mobile phone GPS to 'check in' at certain locations. Over time, it has transformed from a user location check-in app into a large location platform that provides analytics to several business and consumer products.
Foursquare operates in a crowded market, but by continually innovating, it has managed to successfully fend off competitors. However, with the likes of Google Maps and Facebook Places in the same industry, it will be continually needing to set itself apart. Foursquare shows its appeal, though: major players including Twitter, Uber, Apple Maps, and Airbnb, to name a few, use the platform.
The company has an ambitious goal of bringing "Foursquare Everywhere", with part of its strategy to grow by acquisitions. For example, it acquired Unfolded, a geospatial analytics firm, to help enhance its analysis of location data. Foursquare has also made a deal with social media giant TikTok to provide insight into users' in-store activity to monitor the effectiveness of ads on the video platform, and partnered with Constellation Network to provide insights into restaurant and retail business traffic trends.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2019
$150m
SERIES G
Oct 2018
$33m
LATE VC
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- 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
- Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven
- Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dennis Crowley
(Co-Chair)Having studied at New York University, Dennis co-created the big game projects PacManhattan and ConQuest before founding Dodgeball, which he managed after its acquisition by Google in 2005. In 2009, he co-founded Foursquare with Naveen Selvadurai.
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