Senior Data Engineer

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.

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About the Position

Foursquare is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Movements team and work on faithfully reconstructing people’s movement in the real world and associating stops to places of interest. We rely heavily on GPS data to reconstruct the daily diaries for mobile devices, while protecting user privacy. Our tech stack helps businesses use location to guide decision-making and unlock revenue opportunities, by detecting and segmenting different types of motion at scale.

About the Team 

The Movements team is responsible for one of the foundational datasets of Foursquare, Visits dataset. We maintain and improve geospatial data processing pipelines representing people’s movements in the real world. Our technology stack comprises Airflow, Python, Spark, AWS S3, AWS EMR, and other advanced tools and platforms.

In this role, you’ll

• Design, build, and maintain data processing pipelines that will be used by our clients and other Foursquare teams
• Build resilient services and tooling that will drive and improve the processing of petabytes of geospatial data
• Write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of production deployments
• Work directly with your fellow engineers and members of the teams who consume Movements data sets
• Help design and improve Metrics, Thresholds, and Alerts framework used for performance and data quality metrics
• Provide 24/7 on-call coverage for a week, rotating with other engineers

What you’ll need

• Preferably a BS/BA in a technical field, such as computer science or equivalent relevant experience
• Preferably 5+ years of experience in software development working with production-level code
• Experience with Python and PySpark
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
• Strong algorithms, data structures and distributed systems knowledge
• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits and Perks

• 25 days of paid vacation
• Private medical insurance
• Home Office Setup, you get all the necessary hardware
• Summer Fridays, two non-working Fridays each July and August
• FitPass
• Restricted Stock Units
• Working and residence permit sponsorship for Serbia

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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