[Hiring] Software Engineer @Sprout Social

Role Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.

Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?

• Collaborative cross-functional teams spanning mobile, front-end, back-end, and site reliability engineering.
• Process tens of billions of requests and asynchronous events daily.
• Ingest billions of social messages every day.
• Ship more than 1,000 production deployments every month.
• Work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams.
• Diversify your skills by moving teams within the product suite.

What you’ll do:

• Work on delivery of new network capabilities and networks to customers.
• Write clean, well-tested, and reviewable code using technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and complete feature work.
• Own the code you write and deploy to production, identifying and communicating risks or issues.
• Review pull requests and design documents from peers, applying established code patterns and best practices.

Qualifications

• 2 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment.
• 2 years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, Python, or C++.
• Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication.

Requirements

• 2 years experience developing Front-End applications.
• 2 years experience using third-party APIs and building resilient systems.
• 2 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Professional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication.

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program.
• Deploy and make changes to our production systems.
• Interact with SQL or NoSQL data stores and messaging queues.
• Collaborate regularly with product managers and other product teams.
• Get regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.
• Proactively monitor the health of our services in production.

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Create and prioritize quarterly team goals.
• Contribute to our Agile culture of continuous improvement.
• Build connections with members from other teams.
• Participate in technical design meetings.
• Work with product managers, UX developers, and front-end engineers on MVPs.
• Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs.
• Maintain, scale, and build upon systems handling hundreds of thousands of messages a day.

Within 6 months, you’ll be making clear impact through:

• Create, deploy, and manage resilient systems.
• Attend in-house presentations, workshops, and training sessions.
• Form a career growth plan with your manager.
• Decompose work into small, similarly sized units.
• Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks.

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools.
• Participate in architecture discussions with senior team members.
• Act as the “point person” on a project.
• Mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines.
• Demonstrate ownership over the codebase.

Benefits

• Stock Ownership (RSUs): Eligibility for Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Generous Paid Time Off: 26 paid days off annually, plus bank holidays and extra company-wide "Rest & Recharge" days.
• Paid Parental Leave: 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): An annual $600 USD fund for personal well-being.
• Remote & Hybrid Work Support: Flexible, remote-first model with a home office setup stipend.
• Mental Health & Well-being: Access to dedicated mental health resources.
• International Travel: Opportunities to travel to our Chicago HQ for team meetups.
• Kraków Office Perks: A daily 50 zł lunch stipend when working from the office.

* This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change.