Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Maps

The role

You will own the data foundation for the geocoding platform and build pipelines that integrate commercial and open data sources. You will work across the geocoding stack using Scala, Python, and Rust to power over 1 billion API calls per day.

What you will do

• Own the data foundation under the geocoder including how location data is modeled, kept consistent, and served reliably
• Build pipelines that bring many commercial and open data sources together
• Help bring LLMs and agents into the data layer for enrichment, labeling, and quality
• Range across the geocoding stack from the serving path in HorizonDB to the Node.js/TypeScript API
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects to incorporate feedback into your work

Required qualifications

• Generalist engineer not tied to any particular stack
• Interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
• Deeply curious about how things work
• Tenacity to sit with hard problems and power through them

Nice to have

• Former technical co-founder
• Worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
• Worked on geospatial infrastructure
• Built large-scale data pipelines or data-integration systems
• Used LLMs in a data or ML pipeline (enrichment, labeling, or evaluation)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful stock options
• 401(k) plan with 4% match
• 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

Before you apply

• Technical Recruiter call
• Technical Zoom calls including code screen, coding round, and system design round
• Final round interview at NYC HQ with co-founders and team

About the company

Radar is the global leader in geolocation, providing geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-enabled solutions. The company processes over 1 billion API calls per day and is based in NYC.