Full Stack Software Developer, Foursquare
$100-165k
+ Restricted stock units
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Location data platform
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Location data platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-165k
+ Restricted stock units
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
- An ideal candidate for this role is proficient in designing and building scalable web services and accompanying web portals for key services like assets management, data querying, authentication, billing, and identity
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
- Mid-level of experience, which aligns with 3+ years of industry experience building and supporting distributed web services
- Proficient knowledge of Java
- Knowledge of JS / Typescript and experience with React and Spring frameworks
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Developer to join the Places team, which builds our Places dataset, the backbone of our product offerings
- 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
- The Full-Stack Software Developer will work on our backend systems, shared platform services and web portals
- They will also enhance the team's internal developer experience by deeply understanding and optimizing popular build tools and systems
- The successful candidate is expected to contribute in all stages of design, implementation, build, and observability for systems that handle traffic from many products. In addition, they will be able to communicate decisions, updates, and trade-offs to external parties, including the product and go-to-market teams, and play a vital role in decision-making
- Our engineering organization has transitioned to a performance system that prioritizes experience, skills, and impact over traditional hierarchy
- By simplifying titles and focusing on market-based levels, we aim to cultivate a high-performing, team-based environment where collaboration and innovation are at the heart of everything we do
- While our titles no longer include conventional levels like 'Senior' or 'Director,' we expect all members of our Engineering organization to embrace principled thinking and truth-seeking as we work together to pursue the best ideas and solutions for our business
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems and accompanying customer facing portals for our key selling products
- Analyze complex customer requirements to understand needs and translate them to engineering work and objectives
- Architect or incorporate new tools and technologies to optimize development, monitoring, and quality assurance of our products
- 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
- Shape broad architecture decisions, and participate in planning and Product decisions
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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