Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Maps

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.