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 our mobile apps CityGuide and Swarm, as well as the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands, like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb and others.
Foursquare’s 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 (Studio).
Learn more at location.foursquare.com
About the team
The Graph, Users, and Transactions (GUST) team at Foursquare is a pivotal engineering group tasked with the development, maintenance, and enhancement of data pipelines that are integral to the company's data foundations. Their responsibilities encompass a broad range of activities that ensure the integrity, accuracy, and accessibility of geospatial data, which is crucial for various marketing applications including ad targeting and attribution.
About the Position
In the Data Software Engineer role, you will ship products with high visibility and strategic importance to Foursquare and contribute directly to the revenue. Our pipelines are written in a variety of programming languages and deployed to multiple orchestration platforms. The main technologies we work with are Spark, MapReduce, Amazon EMR, Java, Scala, Python, and Apache Airflow.
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Benefits and Perks
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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