Senior Full-stack Engineer, Sift
Fraud prevention
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Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java
- 3+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
- 2+ years of experience building React-based FE applications, preferable platform areas
- Experience with data pipelines
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
What the job involves
- You will be joining Gravity - our Core Platform team - the foundation that powers Sift's Digital Trust & Safety platform
- We build the shared components, abstractions, and infrastructure that other engineering teams rely on to ship faster and smarter
- Our customers are internal: we measure success by how much easier we make everyone else's job, and by keeping the platform maintainable, cost-effective, and built to last
- This role is intentionally full-stack. We need someone who can follow a problem wherever it lives - whether that's deep in backend logic or in a frontend component
- Design and evolve highly scalable, distributed platform components that can reliably serve as shared building blocks across Sift’s ecosystem, even under heavy load
- Deliver engineering solutions that address complex, cross-cutting customer and platform needs at scale, reducing the effort required for product teams to ship features
- Collaborate closely with engineers within Gravity and partner teams to introduce and maintain shared services, data models, and libraries that multiple teams depend on
- Continuously improve our platform engineering practices, tooling, and guardrails to simplify secure, compliant, and cost-effective operation of core systems
Application process
- Introduction interview with the recruiter (45 minutes)
- Hiring Manager interview (45 minutes)
- Virtual onsite loop with the team (4 hours)
Our take
As eCommerce sales are growing, so - unfortunately - is payment fraud. In a landscape where over 80% 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. It gives its clients, that include Twitter, McDonalds, Harry’s, DoorDash and Poshmark, the ability to confidently gain trust from their customers.
Worldwide, Sift serves tens of thousands of websites and apps. Building on its growth and successful fundraising efforts, the company acquired longtime partner Chargeback, and has now made a partnership with payabl to bring AI-driven fraud prevention to European merchants.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Mar 2018
$53m
SERIES D
Total funding: $156.8m
Company benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- 401k plan
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Wellness reimbursement
- Education reimbursement
- Flexible time off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Tan
(Executive Chair & Founder)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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