Full-Stack Engineer, Sift
$140-190k
OTE
Offers equity
Fraud prevention
Be an early applicant
Fraud prevention
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-190k
OTE
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Sift's mission is to help everyone trust the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years building React applications (React, React Query, React Router), along with familiarity with common testing tools such as Jest and Cypress
- At least one year of backend experience in any language. Specific experience with Ruby on Rails or Java is not required, but a willingness to work with them is
- A focus on customers and on delivering results, not only on writing code
- Comfort moving between different products and codebases
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first approach
- A degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- This role is open to both junior and mid-level engineers. Strong React experience is the primary requirement; if you have that and are comfortable working across the stack, we would like to hear from you
- Tech stack:
- BE Technical stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Dropwizard, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, BigTable, Spanner Graph DB, Postgres, Redis, gRPC, Python, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery
- FE Technical stack: ReactJS, React, React Query, React Router, Cypress, Jest, Storybook, SCSS
- Prior experience with our specific backend stack is not required; backend experience in any language is sufficient, provided you are willing to work in ours. Hands-on experience with React, however, is expected
What the job involves
- You will be joining Atlas, our Continuous Engineering team
- Our focus is keeping existing customers successful: we take the feature requests and bug fixes that come through Customer Success and Product, prioritize them, and see them through to release
- Because those requests can touch almost any part of the product, our work spans most of Sift’s major technical domains and products
- The requests we take on are typically high-impact and come directly from customers, so the work you do reaches production quickly
- We have already delivered a wide range of customer-requested improvements, with many more planned
- This is a genuinely full-stack role
- Depending on current priorities, you may spend some periods working primarily on the backend and others primarily on the frontend, and many features involve both
- We are looking for someone who can own a problem end to end, wherever it leads
- Build and deliver customer-facing features end to end, across both the frontend and the backend. Some features are primarily one or the other; many involve both
- Work closely with Customer Success and Product to turn customer requests and bug reports into delivered features
- Work across different areas of our various product and technology areas, including Payments, Account Takeover, Dispute Management, Console, Workflows, and the API. You are not expected to know every area from the start; getting up to speed quickly is part of the role
- Contribute to backend services in our stack (Ruby on Rails, Java, and others), building your familiarity with it over time
- Help maintain our tooling and engineering practices so the team can continue to deliver reliably
- Experience: you will gain exposure across a broad range of Sift’s products, which few roles offer
- Professional growth: we run Growth Cycles rather than standard performance reviews, and the role is a strong opportunity to deepen your backend skills alongside your frontend experience
- Knowledge sharing: we hold regular Tech Talks, where you will learn how Sift handles data at very large scale
- Culture of innovation: you can put your own ideas into practice at our bi-annual Hackathon
Application process
- In person final round interviews may be required for this role
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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