Senior Software Engineer, API Platform

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.

Technical stack: Java 11, GCP, Kubernetes, BigTable, Kafka, Dropwizard, Postgres, MongoDb, gRPC.

Opportunities for you:

• Experience: Participate in high load platform and technical challenges to improve API latency having 30K requests per second;

• Professional growth: quarterly Growth Cycles instead of performance review;

• Knowledge Sharing: we have biweekly Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build projects that handle petabytes of data and high fault tolerance;

• Culture for innovations: you can try your ideas on our annual Hackathon;

• Continuous learning: we have a “Learning marathon” initiative where people choose some technology and dive deeper together sharing the progress on regular syncs;

• Business trips and the annual Sift Summit, in 2024, Summit took place in California;

• Remote work approach: you can choose where you work better.

What would make you a strong fit:

• 8+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java;

• 3+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services;

• Experience with RESTful services, API design, and web technologies;

• Experience with data pipelines;

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience;

• Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset.

What you’ll do:

• 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.

Benefits and Perks:

• A compensation package that consists of financial compensation, a biannual 5% bonus, and stock options;

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage;

• 50$ for sports and wellness;

• Education reimbursement: books, education courses, conferences;

• Flexible time off: we follow an unlimited vacation approach;

• Tuned work schedule to Kyiv timezone despite US offices locations: biweekly demo sessions are optional for our team and we watch them from recording;

• Mental Health Days: additional day-offs;

• English courses and social activities inside the company that allow improving your public speaking and language.

Our Interview Process:

• 45-minute introduction call with a recruiter;

• 60-minute technical screen with the Head of R&D, Ukraine, that includes medium-level leetcode problem-solving task;

• Virtual onsite with the team will take approximately 3,5 hours (system design, coding, deep dive, and values-based interview).

During our sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about company culture, meet engineers from your team, and discuss distributed system problems. You will have time for all interesting questions and get transparency regarding your future responsibilities and the project.

A little about us:

Sift is the AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. Our deep investments in machine learning and user identity, a data network scoring 1 trillion events per year, and a commitment to long-term customer success empower more than 700 customers to grow fearlessly. Brands including DoorDash, Yelp, and Poshmark rely on Sift to unlock growth and deliver seamless consumer experiences. Visit us at sift.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Let’s Build It Together

At Sift, we are intentionally building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity drives innovation, equity is a fundamental right, and inclusion is a basic human need. We envision a place where all Sifties feel secure sharing their authentic selves and diverse experiences with their teams, their customers, and their community – ultimately using this empowerment and authenticity to build trust and create a safer Internet.

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