Position: Engineering Manager, Sift Connect
Company: Sift
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**Our Team:**
As API and Sift Connect team, we bridge the gap between our complex machine learning technology and serving our customers’ business needs. We are 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.

Our R&D team consists of over 100 people, 30+ are based in Ukraine. Our Ukraine Sift & Connect team consists of 5 engineers and a Product Manager, and we plan to extend it with an Engineering Manager. 

**What we’re looking for:**
Managers who are inspiring, creative, flexible, and can identify and bring focus to What’s Important Now will excel in our organization and make the biggest impact.  Bring your toolbox of effective and varied communication skills and techniques.

You value collaboration, transparency, and a Get Stuff Done mindset.  As a leader, you understand the importance of these aspects of engineering success and lead by example. We are strong believers in servant leadership. 

You strengthen a culture of mentorship, give regular feedback, set goals and understand how to get the most out of your staff.  You manage the career development of your team and grow engineering groups by hiring effectively.

**Opportunities for you:**
- Professional growth: quarterly Growth Cycles instead of performance review;
- Experience: knowledge sharing through biweekly Tech Talks sessions. You will learn how to build projects that handle petabytes of data, have small latency and high fault tolerance;
- Business trips and the annual Sift Summit, in 2022 Summit takes place in California;
- Hybrid work approach: you can choose where you work better remotely or in the office.

**What would make you a strong fit:**
- 3+ years leading teams & managing scalable systems;
- 5+ years of experience building distributed backend systems using Java, Scala, or other object-oriented languages;
- Deep technical experience in working with high volume high availability applications;
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing top engineering talent;
- Experience initiating cross-functional collaboration between multiple functions (technical and non-technical);
- Strong management and project management skills for planning and executing complex projects;
- B.S. in Computer Science (or related technical discipline), or related practical experience.

**What you’ll do:**
- Manage 3 engineering teams in Ukraine R&D center: Sift Connect, Console, and Dispute Management, having 13 people in a span of control;
- Lead, manage and mentor a team of talented, broadly-capable engineers that own key areas of our fraud detection platform, as well as systems that deliver unique, strategic insights in a challenging domain;
- Help identify key strategic areas for investment in both product and technical backlogs;
- Lead your team as they plan and deliver features and platform improvements;
- Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to ensure we are working effectively and focusing on the right priorities;
- Demonstrate and embody a strong, abiding commitment to the highest cultural standard, focusing on inclusivity, collaboration, and teamwork.

**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.