Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Sift; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Top-tier health insurance: Medical, 1:

Job summary

Sift is seeking an early engineer to help define architecture, shape the product, and influence the culture as the company tackles real engineering challenges. You will build and maintain full stack features for a web app and data backend handling complex telemetry data, and create intuitive interfaces for exploring large real-time datasets.

You’ll work with React, Go, Rust, TypeScript, and other modern technologies, collaborating across teams on service design and implementation while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, Timescale).
• Experience building production applications with React, NextJS, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python.
• Experience with technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts) and time-series data.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full stack features across our web application and data processing backend for complex telemetry data.
• Create intuitive user interfaces for data exploration while optimizing for large real-time datasets.
• Implement efficient APIs and data access patterns for real-time data streaming.
• Collaborate with data platform and frontend teams on service design and implementation.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in technical design discussions.
• You’ll help evolve and scale our platform as we’re still in the early stages of building the product.

Skills

Full-stack software development

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Time-series data knowledge

Web visualization

Tools

React

NextJS

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Python

WebGL

D3.js

Job description

• As an early engineer at Sift, you won’t just write code—you’ll help define the architecture, shape the product, and influence the culture of a company focused on solving real engineering problems
• If you’re looking for complex technical challenges and the opportunity to build foundational systems supporting complex machines from the ground up, we want to hear from you
• Build and maintain full stack features across our web application and data processing backend for complex telemetry data
• Create intuitive user interfaces for data exploration while optimizing for large real-time datasets
• Implement efficient APIs and data access patterns for real-time data streaming
• Collaborate with data platform and frontend teams on service design and implementation
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in technical design discussions
• You’ll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we’re still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:
• Web frontend & backend: ECharts, Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, React, Redux, and TypeScript
• Data: Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Parquet, and Rust
• Infrastructure: Argo CD, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, and Terragrunt

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Top-tier health insurance: Medical, Vision, & Dental
• Free lunch, snacks, & coffee

8+ years of professional experience in full-stack software developmentStrong problem-solving skills and attention to detailFamiliarity with relational and non-relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, Timescale, or similarExperience building production applications with technologies like React, NextJS, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and PythonExperience with technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts) and time-series dataKnowledge of WebAssembly and browser-based computationExperience building tools for technical users (dashboards, data-editing environments)Background in scientific computing or technical data visualizationBuilt and launched side projects with consistent usage traffic