Software Engineer

About Foursquare 

Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

About the position

Foursquare is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in Belgrade, Serbia.

About the team

The successful candidate will join the Shared Services and Attribution team which is the backbone of our product offerings. We own and iterate on the core building blocks of our customer products including attribution, metering, billing, user authentication and permissioning. We make it easier for other teams to quickly launch new products, and help customers gain visibility into their payments and product usage. 

About the role

The Software Engineer will work on our backend systems, shared platform services and web portals. An ideal candidate for this role is proficient in designing and building scalable web services and accompanying web portals for key services like assets management, data querying, authentication, billing, and identity. They will also enhance the team's internal developer experience by deeply understanding and optimizing popular build tools and systems. The successful candidate is expected to contribute in all stages of design, implementation, build, and observability for systems that handle traffic from many products. In addition, they will be able to communicate decisions, updates, and trade-offs to external parties, including the product and go-to-market teams, and play a vital role in decision-making.

In this role, you’ll:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems and accompanying customer facing portals for our key selling products
• Analyze complex customer requirements to understand needs and translate them to engineering work and objectives
• Architect or incorporate new tools and technologies to optimize development, monitoring, and quality assurance of our products
• Act as a force multiplier, conducting code reviews, and coordinating cross-team efforts
• Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, code quality, and CI/CD pipelines
• Shape broad architecture decisions, and participate in planning and Product decisions

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 3+ years of industry experience building and supporting distributed web services
• Proficient knowledge of Java
• Knowledge of JS / Typescript and experience with React and Spring frameworks is a plus
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with build tooling such as Gradle, Maven
• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits and Perks

• 25 days of paid vacation
• Private medical insurance
• Home Office Setup, you get all the necessary hardware
• Summer Fridays, every second non-working Fridays each July and August
• FitPass
• Restricted Stock Units
• Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. 

Things to know…

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.