What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager position at Foursquare?
Foursquare is the leading independent location technology company, powered by our deep understanding of how people move throughout the world. Our solutions help businesses make smarter decisions, developers create more engaging experiences, and brands build more effective marketing strategies.
Foursquare’s platform includes Attribution, Audience, Pinpoint, Proximity, Places, Pilgrim SDK and Visits. As the industry’s first and only accredited company for location data from the Media Rating Council (MRC), this foundation powers all our solutions — those that exist today and those we have yet to build. Over 14 billion consumer-verified place visit confirmations help us keep our map and models fresh and up-to-date, building a phone’s-eye-view of the world with 105 million unique places of interest worldwide.
About the team:
Foursquare’s Data Platform team is responsible for providing tools and services that are simplifying day-to-day work for Data Engineers and Data Scientists. We write software and manage systems that support production operations and ad-hoc investigations for teams across Foursquare’s Engineering organization. We are “Lego blocks” builders that are helping teams to leverage big data processing frameworks for their products.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Manage and coach a team of talented engineers
- Own the team's technical roadmap and direction, working closely with Product Management, Program Management, Client Success, Data Engineering, and stakeholders to achieve company goals
- Contribute hands-on engineering solutions as needed
- Identify and track critical diagnostic metrics for the health and growth of our core products
- Partner with engineering, product teams, and department stakeholders to drive forward broader engineering and company initiatives
Qualifications:
- 5 years of software development experience
- 2 years managing an engineering team
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey intricate systems and logic to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to promote employee engagement and align teams toward company goals and vision
- Proficient in capacity planning and project management, ensuring consistent and predictable deliveries
- Experience recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and developing new team members
- Track record of reliably shipping and scaling high-quality products as an individual contributor and manager
- Excellent problem solving and systems debugging skills
- Hands-on experience with professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations
- Understand big data processing systems like Hadoop MapReduce and Spark
- Familiar with deployment process and monitoring tools
- Excellent organization, prioritization, and time management skills
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.
