Data Engineer

About 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: 

As a data engineer on the Places team, you will contribute to the platform services and pipelines that facilitate large-scale data ingestion and governance. You will ship software with high visibility and of strategic importance to Foursquare, directly impacting revenue and the experience of our customers and Open Source community. You will focus on implementing and productionization of our ML models, working closely with our Data Science team to improve model performance and scalability.

The Places team owns all components of our places dataset: from ingestion and data expansion, to delivery mechanisms like our APIs. 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.

In this role you’ll:

• Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, automated data processing workflows


• Build big data processing pipelines using Spark and Airflow


• Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture


• Write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production


• Write, deploy, and monitor services for data access by systems across our infrastructure


• Participate in on-call rotation duties


• 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

What you’ll need:

• BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience.


• 3+ years of experience in software development, working with production-level code.


• Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages we use: Python, Java or Scala


• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights.


• Self-driven and feel comfortable learning without much hand-holding


• Eagerness to learn new technologies


• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Nice to have:

• Experience with relational or document-oriented database systems, such as Postgres and MongoDB and experience writing SQL queries.


• Experience with cloud infrastructure services, such as AWS(S3, EMR, EC2, Glue, Athena, SQS, SNS) or GCP


• Experience with data processing technologies and tools, such as Spark, Hadoop(HDFS, Hive, MapReduce), Athena, Airflow, Luigi

Our Tech Stack:

• Languages: Java, Scala, Python


• Tools for pipeline orchestration: Airflow, Luigi


• Data Processing Frameworks: Spark, MapReduce, Scalding

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 _____________ 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!

Benefits and Perks:

• 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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