Foursquare is the leading independent location technology company, powered by our deep understanding of how people move throughout the world. Our solutions help businesses make smarter decisions, developers create more engaging experiences, and brands build more effective marketing strategies.
Foursquare’s platform includes Attribution, Audience, Pinpoint, Proximity, Places, Pilgrim SDK and Visits. As the industry’s first and only accredited company for location data from the Media Rating Council (MRC), this foundation powers all our solutions — those that exist today and those we have yet to build. Over 14 billion consumer-verified place visit confirmations help us keep our map and models fresh and up-to-date, building a phone’s-eye-view of the world with 105 million unique places of interest worldwide.
About the team:
The full-stack engineering team creates and owns Foursquare's customer and user interfaces. We consider ourselves the gateway to Foursquare's rich and valuable data set. Working with many other groups including product, data engineering, and client success, our team is the nexus between our customers and Foursquare's location platform. Our full-stack team owns the applications, APIs, and services that the world's largest brands rely on to move their business forward. We pride ourselves on our customer focus and the ability to continually deliver value to our users. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team!
Responsibilities of the role:
- Develop impactful products and features for our external and internal clients
- Work closely with Product Management and Design teams to build requirements and implementation specifications
- Design and implement effective, robust, and maintainable full-stack applications
- Collaborate with the Product Management, Client Success, and Data Engineering teams to achieve company goals
- Take responsibility and ownership of the development, deployment, and support of our production systems
- Drive technical reviews to ensure designs efficiently meet product requirements and describe an optimal implementation
- Help scope team projects into well-defined milestones to incrementally deliver improvements
- Mentor and develop engineering teammates
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software development experience on enterprise or consumer web applications
- Comprehensive development experience building highly interactive web applications using JavaScript and React
- Server-side development experience in NodeJS, Ruby/Rails
- Familiarity with SQL databases
- DevOps experience with cloud and container technologies like AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
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.