Staff Software Engineer, Sift
Workflows Platform
$178.2-237.5k
Offers Equity
Fraud prevention
Be an early applicant
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$178.2-237.5k
Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with high volume and throughput services
- Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and data warehousing
- Experience with RESTful services and web technologies
- Experience working in Java
- Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced engineer to help shape our architecture, strengthen our product, and sharpen our toolset as we serve our ever-growing 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 building more ways for customers to configure and manage their workflows, scaling and maintaining our services to be efficient with low-latency, creating visibility in metrics to help in understanding how workflows are performing, and providing guidance to our customers on how to set up or improve their workflows in order to get the most out of Sift’s AI-powered platform
- You’ll bring experience in taking your ideas from concept to customer, at scale, and with high quality
- You thrive on high-growth and high-impact opportunities where you can leverage your strengths and past experience while learning new things
- Architect and implement engineering solutions to address complex customer needs at scale
- Develop and maintain workflow services at scale with zero downtime
- Partner with product management to help scope and shape project requirements
- Collaborate with other engineers within the Workflows Platform team as well as across other engineering teams
- Help evolve and improve our engineering practices
- Technologies we use: Java, Dropwizard, BigTable, BigQuery, Snowflake, Kafka, GCP, MongoDb, Postgres, Jenkins
Our take
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.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
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
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Leadership
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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