About the Role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Platform team. You will build and operate Radar’s infrastructure, developer platform, and data systems to ensure Radar is the most reliable and trusted location platform globally. Your responsibilities include supporting the team, driving a roadmap for scalable and highly available services, and focusing on the application layer while connecting it to infrastructure development through automation.
Responsibilities
- Manage, grow, and mentor a globally distributed Platform team
- Lead a team of engineers and provide technical leadership across backend, frontend and mobile tech stacks
- Work on core Radar technology using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala
- Collaborate with product engineering and SRE teams to build highly available systems with 99.99%+ monthly uptime
- Work with product, SRE, and data teams to enable self-serve capabilities, including build/test/deploy infrastructure, observability improvements, data pipeline investments, and automation
- Build and support core platform capabilities like IAM, feature flagging, application rate limiting, and more
- Drive development of our internal development platform, including supporting our server, frontend, mobile, and desktop frameworks, and integrating safe AI-enabled development practices throughout our SDLC
- Enable test automation and coverage for developers throughout our application, data, and infrastructure stack
- Be part of the on-call rotation
- Help integrate security and compliance practices into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment
- Power 1 billion+ API calls a day and be used on 300MM+ devices
- Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful
Requirements
- Have a good understanding of coding practices and system design
- Be strongly familiar with infrastructure technologies
- Have experience at a high growth startup and shipped software working at high scale
- Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack
- Be interested in talking to customers or prospects and making them successful
Skills
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Python
- Scala
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- S3/Athena
- Redis
- Airflow
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Terraform
- CircleCI
- CloudWatch
- Grafana
- Pingdom
- PagerDuty
- AI tools (Claude, Codex)
- Geospatial database
- iOS
- Android
- React Native
Location
- NYC HQ
Work Type
- Distributed team
- In-person collaboration in NYC HQ
Experience Level
- Manager
- Staff level expertise
- Multi-Stack expertise
Education Level
- Schools like Waterloo and CMU
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful stock options in a fast-growing company
- 401(k) plan with 4% match
- New HQ in Flatiron, NYC
- Top-notch equipment
- Catered lunches
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter and fitness benefits
About the Company
- Radar is the global leader in geolocation, with geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-enabled solutions for marketing, fraud, and operations teams.
- Trusted by high-growth startups to the Fortune 500.
- Processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices.
- Raised $85.5M from investors including Accel and Insight Partners.
- High-performance culture with ambitious and entrepreneurial teammates.
- Named a top 10 best place to work in NYC by Crain's.
- Sponsors OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre and OpenAddresses.
Equal Opportunity
- Radar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
