Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Big Data - Kyiv

About the team

Our team researches and develops machine learning models and systems that help make the Internet a safer place. We serve customers across multiple verticals such as online commerce, delivery service, finance, travel sites, etc., and we have customers in both developed and developing countries. Our technology helps protect Internet users from ever-evolving online scams, payment fraud, abusive content, account takeover, etc.  We are a forward-thinking team constantly challenging ourselves and the status quo to push the boundary of machine learning and data science across multiple product offerings at Sift and collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver tangible customer value.

 We take pride in our work, not ourselves. Open and constructive feedback is valued and often required to ensure rigor in our work. We love learning, hacking, and sharing our findings. We believe that machine learning is THE way to empower internet-scale businesses to thrive.

What you'll do

• Build highly scalable Big Data solutions using the latest technologies such as Apache Flink, Beam, and Spark
• Design and implement end-to-end machine learning products
• Prototype and explore with latest machine learning or analytics technologies such as graph databases, model serving frameworks, or workflow orchestration engines
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers and data scientists and contribute to internal tooling, experimentation, and prototyping effort
• Lead system design discussions and drive engineering excellence

What would make you a strong fit:

• You have a growth mindset and a strong interest to work with real-world machine learning applications and technologies
• You are curious about customer and business needs
• You are open to learning and patient to teach when working with our diverse team members with various backgrounds in engineering and data science
• 3+ years of experience working with large datasets (think TBs of data, 10s of thousands of features) in both batch and streaming environments
• Expert programmer in Java or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with python, docker container, k8s, terraform, etc.
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative work attitude
• B.S degree in Computer Science or related field

A little about us:

Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety.  Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Zillow, and Twitter trust Sift to deliver outstanding customer experience while preventing fraud and abuse.

The Sift engine powers Digital Trust & Safety by helping companies stop fraud before it happens. But it’s not just another anti-fraud platform: Sift enables businesses to tailor experiences to each customer according to the risk they pose. That means fraudsters experience friction, but honest users do not. By drawing on insights from our global network of customers, Sift allows businesses to scale, win, and thrive in the digital era.

Benefits and perks:

• A compensation package that consists of financial compensation, a biannual 5% bonus, and stock options
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 50$ for sports and wellness
• Education reimbursement: books, education courses, conferences
• Flexible time off: we follow an unlimited vacation approach
• Tuned work schedule to Kyiv timezone despite US offices location: biweekly demo sessions are optional for our team and we watch them from recording
• Mental Health Days: additional 4 day-offs
• English courses and social activities inside the company that allow improving your public speaking and language

Our interview:

We follow the same process for all teams, technical interview consists of 2 parts:

• 45 min technical phone interview with the engineering manager, 1 coding task Leetcode medium level like
• On-site interview: 4 sessions, 45 mins each, that cover coding, system design, experience, and soft skills

During our sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn company culture, meet engineers from your team and discuss distributed system problems. You will have time for all interesting questions and get transparency regarding your future responsibilities and the project.

Sift is an equal opportunity employer. We make better decisions as a business when we can harness diversity in our experience, data, and background. Sift is working toward building a team that represents the worldwide customers that we serve, inclusive of people from all walks of life who can bring their full selves to work every day.

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