Backend Engineer

ABOUT PLACER.AI: 

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

 

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

 

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

 

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

 

SUMMARY:

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Placer.ai’s mobility engineering group and build the systems behind one of the world’s largest location-analytics platforms.

In this role, you’ll work on backend services that process and serve millions of clients, power ML-driven insights, and operate at high scale and high reliability. If you’re motivated by hard technical challenges, modern infrastructure, and collaborating with strong engineers, this role is built for you.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own services end-to-end — from architecture and design to production, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Drive performance, scalability, and reliability, using data and metrics to guide decisions
• Build infrastructure and data pipelines that support machine-learning, analytics, and real-time use cases
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Analytics to turn complex data into impactful product features
• Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design discussions, and technical mentorship

 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high scale systems
• 2+ years working on NodeJS backend systems with TypeScript or JavaScript
• Excellent proficiency in Cloud Computing environments (AWS or GCP) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Familiarity with mobile app development (iOS/Android) in one or more of the following: Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Java
• Solid engineering fundamentals: system design, data structures, APIs, testing, and observability
• Hands-on experience with data-intensive systems and complex data pipelines
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Optional: Data engineering experience with Apache Spark is a big plus

 

NICE TO HAVES:

Demonstrated use of AI tools to work more efficiently—whether professionally or personally—and a curiosity for finding new ways to apply them.Comfort integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows to boost productivity, quality, and output.

 

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER 

• Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• See our data in action at The Anchor
• Placer.ai in the news
• Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate
• Video Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos

 

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.