Staff Software Engineer, Sift
API Platform
$140-185k
Fraud prevention
Job no longer available
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$140-185k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ 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
- 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
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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