Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java)

US product company Sift is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join it`s Kyiv team on a full-time basis. The product is a highload fraud prevention platform based on ML principles. Modern tech stack, worldwide сustomers (Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, LinkedIn, Indeed).

About the team:
We bridge the gap between our platform providing machine learning at scale and our customers' needs. We give our customers a seamless way to gain insights, make decisions, and navigate the ever-changing world of fraud-fighting. We provide customer-facing automated workflow tools running on highly-available services architecture. We’re also responsible for providing third-party extensibility points, giving our customers simple ways to use our product within their current workstreams. Together we provide the platform that makes high-volume streams of data understandable, actionable, and usable.

What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for an experienced backend software engineer to help drive our product forward, helping to shape our architecture and sharpen our toolset as we scale up for our enterprise customers.
Great candidates will bring experience in taking your ideas from concept to customer at scale, with high quality, and on time. You thrive on highgrowth, high-impact opportunities at a growing startup. You have a clear sense of how you can leverage your strengths and past experience while learning new things. You excel at distilling simplicity from complexity and creating order from ambiguity.

What you’ll do:
Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product Management to determine the right balance of scope and schedule, as we build
industry-leading services
Collaborate with other members of our API & Workflows team as we continue building industry-leading products to promote digital trust and safety
Lead the way in creating/improving our forward-looking service and platform architecture
Evaluate technology that we will use to scale our business and metrics to scale to our next level of enterprise customer
Proactively drive improvements to our engineering practices

What would make you a strong fit:
5+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
Experience in creating succinct, performant, and easily readable code in Java
Experience with RESTful services
Strong Awareness of customer needs and the user experience
Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset

Nice To Have:
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS)
Familiarity using large-scale NoSQL databases like HBase or BigTable
Familiarity with distributed systems and/or highly scalable, customer-facing applications

Technologies we use:
Java, Python, JSON, RESTful APIs

A little about us:
Sift is the leading innovator in Digital Trust & Safety. Hundreds of disruptive, forward-thinking companies like Airbnb, 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.

Sift is an equal opportunity employer. We make better decisions as a business when we can harness diversity in thought, 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, so we can Win as One Team.

What we offer:
- bonus: 5% of the annual salary; the bonus will be paid 2 times a year;
- highload products, that based on ML principles (Scale: 60B events per month, Peta bytes of data, Tens of thousands of transactions per second, BigTable data cluster of several hundred nodes);
- worldwide Customers: McDonald, AirBnB, LinkedIn, Twitter, Estee Lauder, Christian Dior, Coinbase, etc.
- stable and well-funded company ($107M in funding) with good culture;
- products with good business value;
- highly experienced team: specialists that previously worked at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon;
- Sift provides technique for the employees: MacBook Pro ‘’16 (model MVVJ2), Monitors, etc.
- the main direction of R&D office in Ukraine: building new features and new functionality, architecting the platform and taking it to the next level, building new products;
- medical and dental insurance.

About Alcor

Your own R&D center from scratch fully backed by our back-office services (Real Estate, RPO, Accounting & Legal, etc.).

Company website:
https://alcor-bpo.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/alcor/