27 days ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the geocoder’s data foundation, including location-data modeling, consistency, and reliable serving.
- Build pipelines that combine commercial and open data sources to expand geocoding coverage and quality across U.S. and international data.
- Work across Scala, Python, and Rust and range from HorizonDB’s serving path to the Node.js/TypeScript API.
- Introduce LLMs and agents into the data layer for enrichment, labeling, and quality with appropriate trust and safety guardrails.
- Build systems supporting more than 1 billion API calls per day.
- Talk with Radar customers and prospects, incorporate their feedback, and help make them successful.
- Participate in the engineering on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Approach the role as a generalist engineer rather than being tied to one technology stack.
- Be interested in speaking with customers and prospects and helping them succeed.
- Bring deep curiosity, tenacity, and the ability to work through difficult technical problems.
- Experience as a technical co-founder is a bonus.
- Experience with high-throughput, high-growth SaaS applications is a bonus.
- Experience with geospatial infrastructure is a bonus.
- Experience building large-scale data pipelines or data-integration systems is a bonus.
- Experience using LLMs in data or ML pipelines for enrichment, labeling, or evaluation is a bonus.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with a 4% match
- Meaningful stock options
- New headquarters in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC
- Top-notch equipment
- Catered lunches
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% employee coverage
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter and fitness benefits
- The role is based in the NYC headquarters and engineering teams generally work together in person.
- Most engineers participate in an on-call rotation.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Radar
Radar builds a location platform for businesses, offering geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-enabled tools used by marketing, operations, and risk teams. Its SaaS products include Radar Protect, which provides geo-compliance and fraud detection for industries such as gaming, fintech, marketplaces, on-demand, and e-commerce. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, the company sells usage-based APIs and software to product and data teams.