Engineering Manager

About Radar

Radar is the global leader in geolocation, with geofencing SDKs, maps APIs, and AI-enabled solutions for marketing, fraud, and operations teams.

• We're trusted by some of the world's best companies, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 500.
• We have incredible scale:
  We're processing over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices.
• We're well-resourced, and we've raised $85.5M from world-class investors, including Accel and Insight Partners.
• We have a high-performance culture, with ambitious and entrepreneurial teammates in every role.
• We recently moved into an amazing new office in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC.
• We were recently named a top 10 best place to work in NYC by Crain's.

Despite our growth and scale, we're still just getting started. That's where you come in.

We're looking for a hands‑on Engineering Manager for the Radar Protect team. You're a player‑coach who can build (write code + review PRs) and manage. This role is in our NYC HQ.

Radar Protect is a core product in the Radar platform. Our customers use it for fraud detection and compliance use cases critical to their organizations. We are an essential part of their operations: they cannot operate their business without our product. The tech stacks of Radar Protect include mobile SDKs, frontend dashboards, server‑side APIs, and data services.

Most of our engineering team are former technical co‑founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU. Most engineers at Radar fit one of two molds, technically: either Staff level expertise in one stack, or “Multi‑Stack” at any level. We say “Multi‑Stack” because “Full‑Stack” has the connotation of “Frontend and Backend”, but Radar Engineers might also work on Mobile or Data engineering.

Not that you need to be an expert in all of those, but a desire to learn, jump around to different stacks, and get things done is the important part.

We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers. We're committed to our product vision of full‑stack location infrastructure, but we also know that customer feedback is a treasure map to gold. 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 meet on Mondays to plan out work for the week in small groups and use Linear for planning.

All projects are run by an Engineering lead, an executive and a Go‑to‑Market lead. Engineers figure out what to build, talk to customers, talk to prospects, help close them, get them live and make them successful.

One of our most important company values is “Walk a mile,” as in walking a mile in the customer's shoes, but also as in literally walking a mile, getting up from your desk and developing a deep understanding of how location services behave in the real world. To us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.

We have mobile SDKs for iOS, Android, React Native and more.

The web dashboard is a React app.

The API layer is a Node.js Type Script app.

Our main backend service is a geospatial database written in Rust that we call Horizon

DB.

We use Mongo

DB, 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 Open Street Maps , Map Libre, and Open Addresses.

• Engineers choose what AI tools they use, Claude and Cursor being the two most popular.
• All code changes are reviewed by an Engineer knowledgeable in that area. Cursor and CoPilot also review all PRs.
• There is a range of how much engineers use AI. Some use it heavily, others less so.
• We are excited about what AI can do, but we also recognize the risks and don't compromise our coding standards.

After a call with our Technical Recruiter, you'll do several technical Zoom calls with members of our engineering team: code screen, coding round, and system design round. If those go well, we'll invite you to our NYC HQ for a final round interview. You'll meet one of our co‑founders, someone from outside engineering, and meet more people from…