Senior Software Engineer - Account Takeover Team - Remote

Overview

The Account Takeover (ATO) team at Sift builds real-time solutions to detect and prevent fraudulent account takeovers. This team plays a vital role in safeguarding user accounts by monitoring fraud trends, refining detection algorithms, optimizing system latency, and swiftly addressing security escalations. Joining the ATO team offers a unique opportunity to develop cutting-edge security solutions and make a meaningful impact on online account protection.

In Short

• 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 Account Takeover team as well as across other engineering teams.
• Help evolve and improve our engineering practices.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building distributed backend systems using Java, Scala, C#, C++, or other object-oriented languages.
• 3+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, and strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL database modelling and design.
• Strong communication & collaboration skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output.
• You are a self-starter, with a quick learning curve.

Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge security solutions.
• Make a meaningful impact on online account protection.
• Collaborate with a talented team of engineers and data scientists.
• Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship.
• Flexible work environment.