Senior Software Engineer, Sift
API Platform
$146-197.5k
OTE
Fraud prevention
Job no longer available
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$146-197.5k
OTE
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java
- 3+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, math, engineering, hard science(s), or comparable industry experience
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable public APIs
- Extensive experience using large-scale NoSQL databases like HBase, Cassandra, or Bigtable
- Strong knowledge of data structures, distributed algorithms, and asynchronous architectures
- Strong familiarity with setting up, managing, and deploying to the cloud (e.g. AWS/GCP)
- Experience building data-intensive applications in data warehouse technologies like Snowflake or something similar
- Strong communication & collaboration skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output
What the job involves
- Our API Platform team is responsible for several core functions of Sift’s Digital Trust & Safety platform: bulk scoring and routing, up-to-the-minute reporting on business metrics, as well as key customer integration points, all of which work together to drive a seamless, accurate and fast solution for identifying and stopping fraud at scale
- We combine customizable tools and powerful infrastructure to analyze and route all manner of transactions in our ongoing effort to build trust on the Internet
- If you enjoy planning for scale, drawing on many engineering disciplines to solve difficult problems, and building tremendous customer value in the process, this team is for you
- As a senior software engineer, you will work closely with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver projects on time and mentor engineers on the team
- You are an experienced engineer who has built scalable distributed systems and are equally adept at understanding concurrency problems as you are at just getting things done
- Build highly scalable, distributed services that can handle hundreds of millions of events per day
- Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements
- Implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale
- Collaborate with other engineers within the API Platform team as well as across other engineering teams
- Help evolve and improve our engineering practices
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, code comments and maintain good code hygiene
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
eCommerce sales are growing, unfortunately for online retailers, so too is payment fraud. In a landscape where 84% of first-time shoppers with smaller merchants are concerned about data security, retailers have to find ways to earn trust.
Sift is one company that sets out to prevent digital fraud by verifying customer identities and payment methods, giving its clients, who include Twitter, McDonalds Harry’s, DoorDash, and Poshmark, the ability to confidently gain trust from their own customers.
Worldwide, sift serves tens of thousands of websites and apps and analyses over 70B account sign ups and purchases each month. Building on its growth and successful fundraising efforts, Sift acquired longtime partner Chargeback, a leader in real-time dispute management for merchants and passwordless authentication company Keyless. These acquisitions allow Sift to offer its customers a more complete solution moving forward.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Mar 2018
$53m
SERIES D
Total funding: $156.6m
Company benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- 401k plan
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Wellness reimbursement
- Education reimbursement
- Flexible time off
Company values
- Start with the customer - The customer is always top of mind. We strive to prioritize our audience’s needs, not our personal agenda
- Courage over comfort - We value vulnerability, invite candid feedback, and believe true growth happens when we leave our comfort zone
- Get Sift done - We value progress over perfection, always acting with urgency and grit—because we believe that passion and perseverance are the answer to adversity
- Ever better - We are continuously improving - our technology, our customer service, ourselves. We view mistakes as opportunities to be ever better
- Win as one team - We’re running toward the finish line, together. The sum is greater than the whole of its parts
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Jason Tan
(Executive Chairman)Having studied at the University of Washington, Jason spent almost 3 years as a Zillow Software Design Engineer, before joining Optify and working as CTO of BuzzLabs for a year. They founded Sift in June 2011, serving initially as CEO and since January 2021 as Executive Chairman.
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