Staff Engineer

Sift Science, Inc

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience designing and delivering highly available services
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Experience with RESTful services and API design
  • Proficiency in Java programming
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with data pipelines, modeling, and warehousing

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement engineering solutions for complex customer needs
  • Develop and maintain API platforms for customer integration
  • Collaborate with product management to scope project requirements
  • Work with other engineers within and outside the team
  • Drive improvements in engineering practices

Benefits

  • Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Empowerment to share authentic experiences
  • Chance to build innovative solutions in a high-impact environment
  • Collaborative team environment focused on trust and safety
Full Job Description
What we're looking for:

We're looking for an experienced engineer to help shape our architecture, strengthen our product, and sharpen our toolset as we scale up for our enterprise customers. You should be able to tackle complex, open-ended problems using targeted and scalable solutions all while driving improvements that make the team better.

Great candidates will be passionate about providing great end-to-end customer experience by evolving our data models, scaling and building out reporting, streamlining fraud analyst review queues, and expanding our service infrastructure. You'll bring experience in taking your ideas from concept to customer, at scale, with high quality, and on time. You thrive on high-growth, high-impact opportunities at a growing startup. You have a clear sense of how you can leverage your strengths and past experience while learning new things.

What you'll do:
  • Architect and implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale
  • Develop, build, and maintain both internal and external facing API platforms and endpoints to enable customer integration, automation, and powering our customer-facing Console web application
  • Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements
  • Collaborate with other engineers within the team as well as across other engineering teams
  • Help evolve and improve our engineering practices

What would make you a strong fit:
  • 8+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Experience with RESTful services, API design, and web technologies
  • Experience working in Java
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
  • Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and data warehousing

Technologies we use:
  • Dropwizard, Snowflake, Spanner, Postgres, Redis, MongoDb, GCP, Elasticsearch, Kafka, BigTable

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.

This document provides transparency around how Sift handles the personal data of job applicants: https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy

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