Full Stack Software Developer
at FoursquareAbout Foursquare
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.
About the team:
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.
About the position:
The Full-Stack Software Developer will work on the UIs and APIs that help up keep our places data world-class. 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. 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.
We understand that this philosophy may not be for everyone, but we'd love for you to apply if this collaborative way of working resonates with you.
Responsibilities of the role:
- 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
Qualifications:
- 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 JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with modern front-end frameworks, particularly React
- Familiarity with back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Spring)
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
At Foursquare, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry and market standards. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and specific office location.
The annual total cash compensation range is $100,000 - 170,000 however actual salaries can vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills and competencies, as well as location.
Salary is just one component of Foursquare’s total compensation package, which includes restricted stock units, multiple health insurance options, and a wide range of benefits!
Perks and benefits:
- Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it!
- Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
- Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match
- Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function
- Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot
- Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
Things to know…
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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