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.

Foursquare’s flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK);  data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Unfolded Studio).

About the Team: 

The Developer Experience team is passionate about making sure that customers both new and old are enabled for success when using Foursquare technology. We strive to build an organic community of developers who love Foursquare’s products and fuel our company’s growth. We interact with our technical users on a daily basis to understand their needs and make their usage of Foursquare Developer tools a more enjoyable experience. We write sample code and guides to lower the barrier to entry for new users and to educate developers on the power of our technology. We collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to influence product strategy and features on behalf of our developers.

Responsibilities of the role:

Foster and build out our online developer community presence on key platforms

Engage with the Foursquare developer community to troubleshoot and solve problems and educate them on the power of Foursquare technology.

Facilitate developer events and be Foursquare’s visible representative through speaking engagements and developer outreach

Write and manage open source demo applications, samples, blog posts and user guides to drive adoption of our technology

Advocate for our community in our product and engineering organizations to influence roadmaps and make sure developers best interests are at the forefront of deliberation

Work with engineering to identify and fix issues in core products, getting your hands dirty to solve issues impacting users and provide workarounds wherever possible

Qualifications:

Prior experience as a software engineer, consultant or other technical role with exposure to a broad range of platforms and technologies - at least one of Mobile SDKs, APIs or Data Engineering

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience with public speaking and technical writing 

Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing and GTM

Experience using online communities to interact with developers (Stack Overflow, GitHub, Slack, etc)

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.

Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Mobile, Senior and Marketing jobs that are similar:

$65,000 — $120,000/year

Location

New York City, New York, United States