Product Engineer, Radar

Full-Stack Mobile

$150-250k

+equity plan with stock option grants

React
MongoDB
AWS
React Native
Redis
iOS
Node.js
Android
Airflow
Kotlin
Swift
Athena
Rust
Objective-C
Next.js
Flutter
Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York
Radar

Location infrastructure for mobile & web apps

Open for applications

Radar

Location infrastructure for mobile & web apps

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseLocation servicesSaaSAPI

Open for applications

$150-250k

+equity plan with stock option grants

React
MongoDB
AWS
React Native
Redis
iOS
Node.js
Android
Airflow
Kotlin
Swift
Athena
Rust
Objective-C
Next.js
Flutter
Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseLocation servicesSaaSAPI

Company mission

To connect digital experiences to the physical world with a location platform for every app, every device, and every developer.

Role

Who you are

  • A desire to learn, jump around to different stacks, and get things done is the important part
  • Have experience building Mobile infrastructure
  • Don't think of yourself as an "iOS Engineer" or "Android Engineer"
  • 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

Desirable

  • Are a former technical co-founder
  • Have worked on an SDK
  • Have experience with Indoor positioning
  • Have experience with background location or network infrastructure with respect to Doze mode, Wake Locks, Background Execution Limits, App Standby Buckets, and Foreground Services
  • Have experience with FusedLocationProvider, GeofencingClient and Beacon monitoring and ranging

What the job involves

  • We're looking for a Product Engineer to build multi-stack features across backend, frontend, and mobile. Over the past year, our SDKs have been installed on over 100M devices worldwide and our steady state traffic is 10,000 qps. Our SDKs are open-source (, ), abstracting away cross-platform differences between location services and allowing you to add geofencing, location tracking, and maps to your apps with just a few lines of code
  • You'll also work on our demo apps, including "Waypoint," an app used internally and by customers to test the Radar SDK
  • Most of our engineering team are former technical co-founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU. Most engineers at Radar fit one of two molds, technically: either Staff level expertise in one stack, or "Multi-Stack" at any level. We say "Multi-Stack" because "Full-Stack" has the connotation of "Frontend and Backend", but Radar Engineers might also work on Mobile or Data engineering
  • 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
  • Most engineers are in the on-call rotation
  • Work on core Radar mobile infrastructure built with Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, as well as wrapper SDKs written in React Native, Flutter and Capacitor. (, )
  • Work on full-stack features across the frontend and backend
  • Embody our "Walk a mile" value by walking around to QA and debug the Radar SDK
  • Push the limits of what is possible with location services on iOS and Android
  • Have your work run on 100's of millions of devices
  • Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful

Application process

  • After a brief call with our CTO, we'll invite you to our NYC HQ for an interview if we think there is a possible match. During that time we'll work on system design problems together and do some coding for 2 hours to build something simple. You might meet one of our co-founders and we'll also go into more depth about how we work to see if there is a match

Our take

Radar connects digital experiences to the real world by supplying companies and brands with real time location data on their users. Developers integrate Radar into their apps and then create geofences around physical locations. These trigger notifications for users when they enter.

Unlike most of its competitors who monetise the data collected, Radar prices its platform based on the number of active users. It has attracted investors from a number of impressive funds including Accel. The platform itself was built with the highest form of privacy and security controls, at the same time educating users around building location-based experiences the right way.

At a time when privacy is paramount, this focus has propelled Radar's growth to dizzying heights, and the company has secured good levels of funding. This has been invested in scaling operations, expanding its team, improving platform capabilities and broadening its reach across key verticals.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

18% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2022

$55m

SERIES C

Feb 2020

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $85.5m

Company benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Office culture - most of our team works from our well-appointed NYC office Monday through Thursday
  • Stock options
  • 401(k) plan with 4% match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible work hours
  • Summer Fridays
  • Regular team events

Company values

  • Walk a mile - We take the time to deeply understand the needs of our customers and the technical nuances of how our product solves them
  • Push the pace - We know that every day matters in a startup. We think that a week is a long time. If we’re behind, we do whatever it takes to catch up
  • Play offense - We’re proactive, not reactive. We create our own opportunities instead of waiting for them to come to us
  • Raise the bar - We have extremely high standards. We strive for excellence and challenge each other to do the best work of our careers
  • Enjoy the ride - We realize that startups are hard, so we support each other and take time to celebrate wins along the way

Company HQ

Greenwich Village, New York, NY

Leadership

After working as a Program Manager for Microsoft, they took an MBA at Harvard Business School and worked in Product Management at Foursquare and Handy. They co-founded Radar in May 2016, serving as CEO.

Started their career in Business Development at SeekGeek and Foursquare before moving on to become Director of Sales at mPartical, a mobile data automation platform.

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