Position: Staff Java Software Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

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 a highly experienced full-stack 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, and help mentor other members of our API & Workflows team as we continue building industry-leading products to promote digital trust and safety
Drive the architecture and technical direction of the API & Workflows components - our front-end framework and backend services
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:
8+ years experience designing/delivering highly-available services
Expertise in creating succinct, performant, and easily readable code in Java Expertise with RESTful services
Experience in Javascript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
Experience with distributed systems and/or highly scalable, customer-facing applications
Experience using large-scale NoSQL databases like HBase or BigTable
Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS)
Strong Awareness of customer needs and the user experience
Strong communication & collaboration skills - a team-first, product-first mindset
Nice To Have:
Familiarity with React
Technologies we use:
Java, Python, React, Backbone, Gulp, d3, 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.

Benefits and Perks:
Competitive total compensation package
Flexible time off
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.