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Product Engineer, Backend

Radar

$200,000 - $300,000
Aug 27, 2025
New York, NY, US • Remote, US
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Extend the core Radar platform which handles 1 Billion API calls per day, operating at scale with a focus on location infrastructure.

Requirements

  • The API layer is a Node.js TypeScript app.
  • Our main backend service is a geospatial database written in Rust that we call HorizonDB.
  • We use MongoDB, S3/Athena, Redis, and Airflow.
  • Everything is deployed to AWS via Kubernetes on EKS using Terraform .
  • Most engineers are in the on-call rotation.
  • We sponsor OpenStreetMaps, MapLibre, and OpenAddresses.
  • Think of yourself as a generalist engineer first, not tied to any particular stack

Responsibilities

  • Work on core Radar products using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Scala
  • Work on features across the backend API layer and offline pipelines
  • Have your work power 1 Billion API calls / day
  • Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful

Other

  • This role can either be in our NYC HQ or remote in the US.
  • 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
  • Are a former technical co-founder
  • Have worked on a high throughput, high growth SaaS application