Software Engineer- API Platform

Summary

Join Sift's API Platform team and build highly scalable, distributed services handling hundreds of millions of events daily. Partner with product management, implement solutions for complex customer needs, and collaborate with engineers across teams. Help evolve engineering practices and document solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or comparable experience, strong knowledge of data structures and distributed algorithms, and experience with scalable public APIs and large-scale NoSQL databases. Familiarity with cloud deployment and strong communication skills are also essential. Sift offers competitive compensation, benefits including 401k, medical/dental/vision coverage, wellness and education reimbursements, and flexible time off.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• 401k plan
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Wellness reimbursement
• Education reimbursement
• Flexible time off