Senior Backend Engineer, Sprig
$180-210k
+ Equity
User research and real-time analytics platform
Open for applications
User research and real-time analytics platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help product managers, user researchers, and growth marketers uncover customer insights in real time so they can make informed product decisions, faster.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineer experience with focus on platform, backend system, data infrastructure, or distributed computing
- Experience with some of the technologies we use, e.g., Redis, Kubernetes, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kafka, gRPC, REST, WebSocket, and S3
- Write high quality production code using Node.js or Golang
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Quick learner, good team player
- Experience with low latency high volume data stores and platforms is a big plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a talented Sr. Backend Engineer to join our Data Team. The Data Team at Sprig is responsible for the backend architecture and the data ingestion, processing and storage systems, playing a critical role in ensuring our platform's reliability, scalability, and performance
- As a Sr. Backend Engineer on the Data Team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain features and the infrastructure that powers our innovative product research solutions
- Ultimately, your work will have a direct impact on the success of our customers by providing reliable, scalable, and insightful research tools, so they can build customer-centric products that resonate with their users
- Enabling customer insights via implementing and optimizing features that power our event-based targeting systems
- Provide technical leadership on projects, guiding the team through key decisions and ensuring best practices are followed
- Collaborating with product managers, AI engineers and product engineers, you will facilitate the integration of backend systems with other components of the platform
- Staying ahead of the latest technologies and integrating them into our systems will keep Sprig at the cutting edge of product research solutions. Your proactive approach to innovation will ensure our platform remains competitive and capable of meeting future challenges
- Driving data integrity and security by managing and maintaining databases. This is crucial for maintaining the trust of our clients and ensuring the accuracy of the insights generated by our platform
- Enhancing platform scalability and performance by designing and developing robust backend systems
Our take
Designed to make product research and analyzing qualitative data faster and more thorough, Sprig (formerly UserLeap) is an AI-powered technology platform. Its tools are trusted by teams of 1 to 10,000, included a whole host of innovative companies, including Square, Dropbox and Adobe.
The company was conceived after a product manager noticed how difficult it was to obtain rich customer insights at a quick enough pace to help influence product development. What makes Sprig unique is that its research is continuous and in-the-moment, meaning product managers can see their customer insights at all times. Users can deploy a range of their ‘micro surveys' to better understand their clients and access powerful AI analysis for video interviews.
Sprig has backing from top investors like az16 and Accel, and is using its 2022 funding to expand the service line, accelerate the roadmap and invest in more integrations and partnerships. This puts the company on track to continue its upwards trajectory, especially as it saw a revenue growth of 300% in 2022 alone.
Steph
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$38m
SERIES B
Dec 2020
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $58m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive Employee Equity
- 401K Program
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Additional Wellbeing Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Hardware & Software
- Work from Home Equipment Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Flexible Work Options
- Access to Sprig Offices
- Company Events
Company values
- End with simplicity - From idea to implementation, our development process can sometimes involve a lot of complexity but when it comes time to share our product with our customers the end result has to be simple.
- Never settle - It's no secret that growing a successful business can be challenging. The temptation to accept just the slightest bit less than the best can be strong - but we never settle, even if it means passing on an okay opportunity now in favor of a great opportunity later.
- Quickly iterate - We don't settle, but we do act with urgency. We have a data-driven approach to decision making where risk taking is encouraged as long as we can prove or disprove it, learn from it, and quickly apply those learnings to the next iteration.
- Be empathetic - User research and insights are the core of our business. We focus on having a deep understanding of our clients and each other - it's never about proving a point or being "right." (By the way - we're "right" a lot but we're also wrong sometimes, and that's definitely okay).
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ryan Glasgow
(CEO)Ryan has deep experience scaling companies from early stage to successful exit having been a team member at Weebly (acquired by Square) and Vurb (acquired by Snapchat).
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