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.
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 (Unfolded Studio).
About the Team
The Eng Tooling team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems driving engineer productivity at Foursquare. This includes the tooling used to build and manage millions of lines of code in Foursquare's monorepo, as well as the core tooling, frameworks, and libraries underpinning our microservice architecture and platform. As owners of our developer workflows and online service framework, the Eng Tooling team is empowered to set technical direction for the engineering experience at Foursquare and broadly impactful across product and technical domains.
About the Role
Your primary goal in this role is to increase the productivity of internal engineers using the Foursquare monorepo by improving everything around the build experience, and therefore you will have an impact on many product and technical domains across Foursquare. Lowering build system compile times, optimizing build scripts, configuring local Artifactory repositories, creating tooling for engineers, making CI/CD systems responsive and fluid, facilitating easier integration testing, and developing core codegen, ORM, RPC, and microservice libraries are all efforts you can undertake in this role.
Responsibilities of the Role
- Enhance and support the build system that enables the Foursquare monorepo
- Develop and improve the build and containerization pipelines for all online Foursquare services
- Work closely with other engineers to make their lives better and improve the experience working in the Foursquare codebase
- Contribute to core foundational software libraries in areas such as codegen, ORM, RPC, and application metrics
- Collaborate with other engineers to build the shared application infrastructure services powering our online Scala services
Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience supporting other engineers in their ability to get their job done
- Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Comfortable interacting with engineers outside their immediate team
- Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals with sound knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design
- Proficient with Python or Bash scripting
- Prior Scala, Java, or other object-oriented programming experience
Nice to have
- Experience with Scala, Pants/Bazel/Buck, Thrift, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Experience developing/managing online API or RPC services
Perks and benefits
- Learning and development programs from individual contributors to managers
- Individual, professional coaching for all full-time employees
- Flexible time off - rest and recharge when you need it!
- Comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Home office setup: you get all necessary hardware and internet reimbursement
- Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven
- Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected
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.