Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Real-Time Data & Visualization

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
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• Experience building production applications with technologies like React, NextJS, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python
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• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, Timescale, or similar
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• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
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• (Desirable) Experience with technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts) and time-series data
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• (Desirable) Knowledge of WebAssembly and browser-based computation
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• (Desirable) Background in scientific computing or technical data visualization
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• (Desirable) Experience building tools for technical users (dashboards, data-editing environments)
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• (Desirable) Built and launched side projects with consistent usage traffic

What the job involves

• 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
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• 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
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• Build and maintain full stack features across our web application and data processing backend for complex telemetry data
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• Create intuitive user interfaces for data exploration while optimizing for large real-time datasets
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• Implement efficient APIs and data access patterns for real-time data streaming
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• Collaborate with data platform and frontend teams on service design and implementation
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• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in technical design discussions
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• 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:
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• Web frontend & backend: ECharts, Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, React, Redux, and TypeScript
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• Data: Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Parquet, and Rust
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• Infrastructure: Argo CD, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, and Terragrunt