Mobile Software Engineer, Sprout Social
Android
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All-in-one social media management platform
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All-in-one social media management platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
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
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining mobile applications for Android platforms
- 4+ years of experience in Android native mobile programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin
Desirable
- Fluency with Object-Oriented programming and MVVM
- Proficiency with offline storage, threading and performance tuning and familiarity with Android’s material design and interface guidelines
- Demonstrated experience with mobile application development tools and techniques, such as different Android versions, Android SDK, Dagger Hilt, Retrofit, Kotlin Coroutines and Flows, Android Jetpack and Android Studio development environment
- Experience with testing such as Unit, Integration or UI Testing
What the job involves
- Sprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Android Engineer to join our Engineering team
- Leverage your experience building and deploying native, customer-facing, Android applications using Java, Kotlin and Android Studio to deliver impactful product features to our customers
- Work to actively improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver a quality mobile product
- Be part of a small, but highly cross-functional team with the opportunity to contribute on a product with rapidly growing mobile user base
- Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Attending and completing Sprout Social’s two-week new hire training and onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members
- In these sessions, you will gain a broad understanding of our products and how your role directly impacts the product, overall organization, and our customers
- Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn about Sprout’s approach to mobile engineering
- Getting to know everyone on the Mobile team: including iOS, Android, and QA Engineers, Product Designers, and Product Managers and your Manager
- Learning the Sprout product, Android app codebase, development lifecycle, release process, and team rituals
- Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Having a firm understanding of the Sprout Social product and how those features are implemented and supported within our Android application
- Owning the development and delivery of a small to medium size mobile feature alongside another mobile engineer and add meaningful test coverage
- Getting regular team feedback on your code through code reviews as well as contribute towards feedback
- Deploying code to our production Android application in order to understand the engineering environment, build tools, testing, and deployment mechanisms
- Integrating, using and improving our monitoring and alerting tools to identify and address problems before our users
- Within 6 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Contributing to our Agile culture of continuous improvement through retrospectives and experimentation-oriented thinking
- Working with product managers, mobile designers and platform engineers to iteratively deliver new features
- Improving the performance of our application and your team’s ability to deliver a reliable, highly available Android Application
- Having your first performance conversation with your manager, where you’ll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to build goals for your professional growth
- Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Owning the technical architecture and development of large-scale mobile product features from start to finish
- Working closely with colleagues to constantly enhance the application by suggesting innovative features and solutions - improving development workflows, design, and the overall experience
- Providing thought leadership in mobile engineering and bringing your passion for technology to motivate and inspire your team
- Actively mitigating risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication and collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders throughout the project life cycle
- Identifying technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, design solutions, and working with your team to see them to successful outcomes in production
- Mentoring less experienced engineers, helping them to hone their technical and problem solving skills
- Surprising us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet
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 established a trusted and effective brand of its own. It dodged direct competition with social engagement platform Hootsuite by expressly prioritising its customer service tools, where Sprout Social appears to be generally recognised as superior.
To double down on serving the social commerce market and carve out a distinctive niche ahead of this e-commerce trend’s anticipated success, Sprout Social has integrated with platforms such as Shopify, Canva 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)They were Senior Account Executive at New Horizons, and worked in Learn.com's Executive Account Sales department.
Aaron Rankin
(Co-Founder & Board Member)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
(Co-Founder & 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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