Front-End Engineer, Sprout Social
$101.9-152.9k
+ RSUs
All-in-one social media management platform
Be an early applicant
All-in-one social media management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$101.9-152.9k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations of all sizes become better marketers and create the world’s most beloved brands.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a creative, highly motivated, and inquisitive learner to build great software with us. If you confidently write web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS, we’d love to talk with you!
- 3+ years of experience with planning, building, and releasing frontend applications with web technologies (Javascript, HTML, and CSS)
- Experience building web applications with React, Redux, and/or similar web technologies
Desirable
- Experience working in a large codebase
- Communication and project management skills from collaborating with people across different teams and functional areas
What the job involves
- Sprout Social is looking to hire a Software Engineer, Front End to the Engineering team
- With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end, and site reliability engineering—the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry
- You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers
- The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You’re able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team—but also your career
- Write clean, performant, and maintainable code
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including backend developers, designers, and product managers, to deliver world class customer experiences
- Participate in and conduct code reviews to maintain code quality, provide feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards
- Continuously improve the codebase by identifying areas for refactoring and optimization to enhance maintainability and scalability
- Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members
- Deliver business value by shipping your first code change with active pairing/mentoring from your teammates
- Learn how code is deployed to our end users through collaboration with front end developers on your team
- Have a firm understanding of the team’s roadmap and the team’s Agile processes by having discussions with your team’s product manager
- Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Independently own and deliver stories without peer consultation given user acceptance criteria and visual mockups
- Adhere to the team’s engineering best practices, such as testing expectations, shared patterns, and documentation
- Openly communicate with all disciplines of the team, including back-end engineers, product design and product managers, in order to move the team’s work forward
- Contribute to team processes by participating in team activities, such as code review, estimation, technical specification planning, collaboration in requirements definition, and contribution of feedback during retrospectives
- Fix production bugs by participating in your team’s support rotation
- Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
- Author a technical specification plan for a roadmap project and collaborate with teammates to create an agreed upon delivery plan
- Mentor junior teammates to provide guidance and coaching on code implementation, design review, and other software engineering and Agile practices
- Understand how the team uses React and other JavaScript frameworks and be comfortable explaining relevant details to other engineers
- Collaborate effectively with your team’s product manager to ensure that projects are delivered on time and with quality
- Understand the web application’s JavaScript build system (e.g. Gulp, webpack). Optionally, you may have contributed enhancements to our local and production build tasks
- Have knowledge of your team’s target customer base and their most common use cases within the application
- Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Have an understanding of all aspects of Sprout’s web application, including server side web code, production hosting infrastructure, and ancillary services, such as the PDF generation and email delivery services
- Demonstrate end-to-end responsibility for delivering roadmap projects on time, from technical planning to performing/guiding implementation to testing to final delivery
- Balance the continuum of trade-offs during code design, knowing that solutions can favor faster delivery with less strict technical requirements or solutions can favor future technical maintainability with delayed delivery of customer value
- Identify a technical initiative (e.g. technical debt, introduction of a new system, need for a new JavaScript dependency, performance improvement, etc) that is prioritized as a quarterly roadmap project for your team
Our take
Engagement tools for social media are proving increasingly vital with the rise of social commerce, and brands need to keep a careful eye on customer satisfaction and interaction if the company is to net a profit from this market. Sprout Social is a social media management platform for brands and agencies of all sizes, allowing users to post, manage engagement, and access analytics on a single hub.
With plenty of big-name customers, including Unicef, Chipotle, and Subaru, Sprout Social has developed a trusted and effective brand of its own. It dodged direct competition with social engagement platform Hootsuite by expressly prioritizing its customer service tools, where Sprout Social appears to be generally recognized as superior.
To double down on serving the social commerce market, and carve out a distinctive niche ahead of this eCommerce trend’s anticipated success, Sprout Social has integrated with platforms such as Shopify and Facebook Shops. It is also a member of the TikTok marketing partner program, and has continued to receive accolades for its software.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2018
$40.5m
SERIES D
Feb 2016
$42m
SERIES C
Total funding: $101.5m
Company benefits
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Justyn Howard
(CEO)They were Senior Account Executive at New Horizons, and worked in Learn.com's Executive Account Sales department.
Aaron Rankin
(CTO)They have a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon and were an IT Architect at IBM. They were also a Software Engineer at Endeca, and they are currently an investor with Rankin Family Ventures.
Peter Soung
(Head of Growth)They studied Computer Science at Penn State before working at IBM as a Software Engineer. They also worked as a Sales Engineer at companies such as Endeca.
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