Senior Software Engineer (Delivery Platform) (Foursquare Labs, Inc., New York, NY)

Senior Software Engineer (Delivery Platform) (Foursquare Labs, Inc., New York, NY)

Partner with Product and Project Managers to translate high level requirements into detailed engineering designs. Independently translate engineering designs into appropriately sized work items for distribution across the team. Drive team best practices and unblock other members of the team through technical or process insight. Participate in on-call rotation duties. Serve as the go-to expert for an integrated system and for debugging and fixing the most complex errors in the team's domain. Design ETL pipelines on top of data warehouse and database technologies such as Hive and MongoDB. Analyze current data processing and analytics structure capabilities to identify areas for potential modification and make recommendations about direction. Own the full lifecycle for software development projects. Drive key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable data processing and analytics structure. Build Airflow, Hadoop MapReduce, and Spark data processing pipelines, using Java, Python, and Clojure. Proactively seek out opportunities for quality and performance improvements. Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture. Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production. Mentor junior engineering staff and supervise work product. Position allows for telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. Salary: $133,390 - $204,250.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, or a related field plus 2 years of professional experience working on all phases of the software development lifecycle (including requirement gathering and analysis, planning, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance). In lieu of a Master’s degree plus 2 years of experience, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, or a related field, plus 4 years of professional experience working on all phases of the software development lifecycle (including requirement gathering and analysis, planning, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance).

Must also have experience with the following special skills: 2 years of professional experience working with big data technologies and pipelines (including Hadoop MapReduce or Spark); 2 years of professional experience using object-oriented programming languages (including Java and Python); 2 years of professional experience with functional programming languages, including Clojure. 2 years of professional experience designing ETL pipelines on top of data warehouse and database technologies (including Hive or MongoDB); 2 years of professional experience utilizing computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and design.

Please send resume to: Please submit resume online at: https://foursquare.com/careers or email resume to [email protected] Please specify ad code CCAP.