Radar
Senior / Staff Product Engineer, Backend
New York · Staff+ · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$200k-$300kDetected 330 days ago
TypeScriptPythonRustScalaNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentMongoDBRedisAWSKubernetesProduct StrategyCustomer SuccessSensors
About the role
- We're looking for Backend Product Engineers to extend the core Radar platform.
- Our daily traffic is 1 Billion API calls / day (15,000 requests / second) so you will be operating at scale.
- This role can either be in our NYC HQ or remote in the US.
Responsibilities
- This is a meaningful ownership stake in the company we provide to our employees as we build a category-defining company.
Nice to have
- Are a former technical co-founder
- Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application
- Have worked on geospatial infrastructure
Skills
- The API layer is a Node.js TypeScript app.
- Everything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform.
- Most engineers are in the on-call rotation.
- Engineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude and Codex being the most popular.
- There is a range of how much engineers use AI. Most use it daily if not weekly.
Compensation
- For candidates based in the United States, the base salary range for this full-time position is between $200,000 - $300,000/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.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter and fitness benefits
Company info
- 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
- Nick Patrick https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaspatrick/, Co-Founder and CEO
- Tim Julien https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjulien/, CTO
- Our customers and prospects
- Our Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams
- We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers.
- 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 are excited about what AI can do, but we also recognize the risks and don't compromise our coding standards.
- Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful
Equal opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre, and OpenAddresses.
This listing is sourced directly from Radar's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.