[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Platform @Sprout Social

Role Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to the Engineering team.

Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?

• Collaborative cross-functional teams that span 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.
• Opportunity to diversify skills by moving teams within the product suite.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations, leveraging technologies such as Scala, MySQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Kafka, NSQ, AWS, Python, Java.
• Help lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps.
• Work to improve processes, systems, and tools for quality product delivery.
• Build processes to proactively identify and address technical issues.
• Provide technical mentoring for engineers across the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment.
• 5+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Scala and/or other JVM languages.
• 5+ years experience with functional programming paradigms and ecosystems.
• 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives.
• Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services.
• 3 years experience working with SQL databases.
• Professional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication.

Growth Timeline

How you’ll grow:

• Within 1 month:
  • Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program.
  • Get acclimated to the team's current Objectives and Key Results.
  • Learn about our current multi-product Identity and Access Management technical vision.
  • Deploy and make changes to our production systems.
  • Become familiar with the team’s current Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Collaborate regularly with product managers, product designers, and engineers.
  • Embrace regular team feedback through code reviews and pairing.
• Within 3 months:
  • Begin operating as the access domain’s technical owner.
  • Lead your first feature delivery with product managers and engineers.
  • Proactively build relationships with members on other teams.
  • Decompose work into small, similarly-sized units.
  • Become an active participant in code reviews and retrospectives.
  • Foster a positive culture on your teams.
  • Create and prioritize quarterly team goals.
  • Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs.
• Within 6 months:
  • Design, create, and maintain access platform solutions.
  • Enhance our existing use of monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks.
  • Partner with other engineers to iterate on our technical strategy.
  • Lead technical design planning and facilitate peer review.
  • Mentor engineers, helping them level up technically.
  • Author your career growth plan with your manager’s support.
• Within 12 months:
  • Be the go-to expert of your teams’ systems.
  • Utilize cross-organization connections to identify areas of need.
  • Own cross-organizational projects and architecture.
  • Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines.
  • Contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops.
  • Use your unique ideas to change your team in beneficial ways.

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.