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Software Engineer
Foursquare
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). With more than 190 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and in sales offices around the globe, we’re dedicated to our trailblazing mission—enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.
About our Software Engineer position:
As a member of Foursquare’s engineering team, we want you to bring experience building real products from the ground up. We're passionate about tackling tough challenges in the location space and look for others who like to dive deep into code and help solve hard problems. You should be comfortable running with your own ideas and eager to learn new skills on a bleeding edge platform. We use a variety of tools, technologies, and languages to build software (Scala, Thrift, MongoDB, Memcached, JS/jQuery, Kafka, Pants) but experience with equivalent ones will do just fine.
Join us and help bring our feature ideas (and your own!) off the whiteboard and into reality. Here are some high level areas you could help within our San Francisco office:
• Harness our treasure trove of data to find new and innovative recommendations for more than 50 million monthly active users worldwide
• Launch features that make cities easier to explore and continue to push the Foursquare app forward as a powerful local discovery tool
• Build intelligent distributed systems to harness hundreds of terabytes of data (and growing) using Hadoop, Hive, Scalding, Spark, and more
Our San Francisco office is around 35 strong, with more than half represented by engineering. Some of the engineering groups in SF include a Foursquare feature team focused on delivering smart and timely recommendations based on users' locations, core infrastructure (both for our live API as well as all of our offline Hadoop infrastructure), and the production team that’s responsible for keeping us up and running.
Qualifications:
◦ 2+ years of proven industry experience building software for fast growing web or mobile products
◦ Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals with sound knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design
◦ Strong Java or other object-oriented programming experience or, even better, experience and/or interest in functional languages (we use Scala!)
◦ A plus if comfortable with AJAX based websites (JavaScript and jQuery) or if experienced with mobile development
◦ Bonus points for experience using Hive, Hadoop, Scalding, Kafka, or Mapreduce
◦ Comfortable in a small and fast-paced start-up environment