Backend Software Engineer, Sprout Social

• 3+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 3+ years experience programming in object oriented languages such as Java, C#, Python, or C++

Desirable

• Sprout Social is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join our 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
• Ensure we build, scale, ship, and monitor our platform reliably
• Embed in one of our engineering teams to work on both product focused and infrastructural roles
• Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
• Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization
• 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 to deliver value to our users
• Get regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing
• Proactively monitor the health of our services in production to ensure our customers always have a world-class experience
• Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
• Work with your team to create and prioritize quarterly team goals
• Contribute to our Agile culture of continuous improvement through retrospective meetings and experimentation-oriented thinking
• Build connections with members from other teams through guild meetings and chapter outings
• Participate in technical design meetings with your teammates to walk through new feature ideas and system improvements
• Work with product managers, UX developers, and front-end engineers to come up with the MVPs of new features
• Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty
• Maintain, scale, and build upon systems that handle hundreds of thousands of messages a day
• Within 6 months, you’ll be making clear impact through:
• Create, deploy, and manage concurrent, distributed systems
• Build your engineering skills by attending in-house presentations, workshops, and training sessions
• Form a career growth plan with your manager and work towards it
• Decompose work into small, similarly sized units so that estimation is unnecessary
• Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve the code, and get it pushed to production
• Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
• Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users
• Participate in architecture discussions with senior team members
• Be “point person” on a project, including writing design documents, coordinating dependencies, and acting as domain owner
• Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle
• Demonstrate ownership over the codebase, from design to maintenance and everything in between
• Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager