Backend Engineer
Placer.ai
About this role
A Senior Backend Engineer at Placer.ai builds the systems behind one of the world’s largest location-analytics platforms, focusing on processing and serving billions of data points, powering ML-driven insights, and operating at high scale and high reliability.
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About Placer.ai
placer.aiPlacer.ai is a location intelligence platform that delivers foot-traffic analytics and place-based insights using aggregated, anonymized mobile location data. It provides dashboards, reports and APIs for retailers, commercial real estate teams, brands, landlords and municipalities to support site selection, trade-area analysis, competitive benchmarking, and visitor behavior measurement. The platform supplies historical and near‑real‑time visitation metrics, demographic and routing insights, and attribution tools to quantify performance. Customers use Placer.ai to reduce risk, optimize portfolios and make data-driven leasing, marketing and expansion decisions.
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About Placer.ai
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$130k – $160k
per year