Product Engineer

We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers. We're committed to our product vision of full-stack location infrastructure, but we also know that customer feedback is a treasure map to gold. Even though Slack is the brain of our company, working together in-person in our NYC HQ is the fastest way for us to get things done. We meet on Mondays to plan out work for the week in small groups and use Linear for planning. All projects are run by an Engineering lead, an executive and a Go-to-Market lead. Engineers figure out what to build, talk to customers, talk to prospects, help close them, get them live and make them successful.

One of our most important company values is "Walk a mile," as in walking a mile in the customer's shoes, but also as in literally walking a mile, getting up from your desk and developing a deep understanding of how location services behave in the real world. To us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.

The stack:

• The API layer is a Node.js TypeScript app.
• Our main backend service is a geospatial database written in Rust that we call HorizonDB.
• We use MongoDB, S3/Athena, Redis, and Airflow.
• Everything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform .
• Our mobile stack includes Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift. We also have thin cross-platform SDK wrappers for React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, and few others.
• The frontend is React and Next.js deployed to Vercel.
• Most engineers are in the on-call rotation.
• We sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre, and OpenAddresses.

The hiring process:

After a call with our CTO, we'll do several technical Zoom calls: code screen, coding round, and system design round. If those go well we'll invite you to our NYC HQ for a final round interview. You'll meet one of our co-founders, someone from outside engineering, and meet more people from Radar. We'll go into more depth about how we work to see if there is a match.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on core Radar products using TypeScript, Rust, React, and Objective-C/Kotlin/etc
• Work on full-stack features across the backend, frontend and mobile
• Embody our "Walk a mile" value by walking around to QA and debug the Radar features
• Have your work power 1 Billion API calls / day
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful

You should:

• 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

Bonus points if you:

• Are a former technical co-founder
• Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
• Have worked on geospatial infrastructure

You’ll work with:

• Nick Patrick, Co-Founder and CEO
• Tim Julien, CTO
• Our customers and prospects
• Our Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams

About Radar Labs

Radar is location infrastructure for every product and service. Companies like Vercel, Panera, and T-Mobile use Radar's geofencing SDKs and maps APIs to power location-based experiences across hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

Founded in 2016, Radar is headquartered in New York City and has raised $85.5M from leading venture capital firms, including Accel and Insight Partners. This year, Radar ranked as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in NYC by Crain's and was also named one of Built In's Best Places to Work in NYC.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation package, stock option grants, and a 401(k) plan with 4% employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with 100% premiums covered, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and more
• Unlimited PTO
• Fully stocked kitchen and weekly catered breakfast/lunch at our NYC office
• CitiBike and Wellhub (Gympass) memberships
• Monthly happy hours and team events

Benefits offering details will be provided if a candidate receives an offer. Benefits may also vary by location.

Compensation:

For candidates based in the United States, the base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $250,000/year with an opportunity for performance bonuses and incentives.

In addition to cash compensation, Radar offers full-time employees stock option grants under its equity plan. This is a meaningful ownership stake in the company we provide to our employees as we build a category-defining company.