Software Engineer- API Platform

Team:
Our API Platform team is responsible for several core functions of Sift’s Digital Trust & Safety platform: scoring and routing, up-to-the-minute reporting on business metrics, as well as key customer integration points, all of which work together to drive a seamless and fast solution for identifying and stopping fraud at scale. We combine customizable tools and powerful infrastructure to analyze and route all manner of transactions in our ongoing effort to build trust on the Internet. If you enjoy planning for scale, drawing on many engineering disciplines to solve difficult problems, and building tremendous customer value in the process, this team is for you.

What you’ll do:

• 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.

Technologies we use: Java, GCP (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigTable, BigQuery, Kubernetes), Kafka, DropWizard, Postgres, Redis, gRPC

What would make you a strong fit:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, math, engineering, hard science(s), or comparable industry experience

• Strong knowledge of data structures, distributed algorithms, and asynchronous architectures

• Experience designing and maintaining scalable public APIs

• Extensive experience using large-scale NoSQL databases like Bigtable, HBase or Cassandra

• Familiarity with setting up, managing, and deploying to the cloud (e.g. AWS/GCP)

• Strong communication & collaboration skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output

Opportunities for you:

• Experience: Participate in high load platform and technical challenges to improve API latency having 30K requests per second

• Professional Growth: quarterly Growth Cycles instead of performance review

• Knowledge Sharing: we have biweekly Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build projects that handle petabytes of data and high fault tolerance

• Culture for Innovations: you can try your ideas on our annual Hackathon

Benefits and Perks:

• Competitive total compensation package

• 401k plan

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Wellness reimbursement

• Education reimbursement

• Flexible time off

A little about us:

Sift is the AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. Our deep investments in machine learning and user identity, a data network scoring 1 trillion events per year, and a commitment to long-term customer success empower more than 700 customers to grow fearlessly. Brands including DoorDash, Yelp, and Poshmark rely on Sift to unlock growth and deliver seamless consumer experiences. Visit us at sift.com and follow us on LinkedIn.