[Remote] Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Maps

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Radar is a global geolocation company providing geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-enabled solutions. The Senior / Staff Backend Engineer will own the data foundation behind Radar's geocoding platform, building reliable large-scale pipelines and serving systems across Scala, Python, Rust, and related technologies. The role also involves applying LLMs to data enrichment, working across the geocoding stack, and engaging with customers and prospects.

Responsibilities

• Own the data foundation under the geocoder including how location data is modeled, kept consistent, and served reliably, working across Scala, Python, and Rust
• Build the pipelines that bring many commercial and open data sources together, expanding coverage and quality across US and international data
• Help bring LLMs and agents into the data layer for enrichment, labeling, and quality, with the guardrails to keep them trustworthy
• Range across the geocoding stack when the work calls for it, from the serving path in HorizonDB to the Node.js/TypeScript API
• Have your work power over 1 Billion API calls / day
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful

Skills

• • Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack
• • Are interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
• • Are deeply curious about how things work, and have the tenacity to sit with hard problems and power through them
• • Are a former technical co-founder
• • Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
• • Have worked on geospatial infrastructure
• • Have built large-scale data pipelines or data-integration systems
• • Have used LLMs in a data or ML pipeline (enrichment, labeling, or evaluation)

Benefits

• Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) plan with 4% match
• New HQ in Flatiron, NYC
• Top-notch equipment
• Catered lunches
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Commuter and fitness benefits

Company Overview

Radar offers location data infrastructure for apps, enabling geofencing, tracking, and proximity services. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://radar.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Radar has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.