Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.

Why join Sprout’s 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. On a daily basis, we process tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events. We also ingest billions of social messages every day, and ship more than 1,000 production deployments every month. 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.

What you’ll do

• Ensure service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Help lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps, guiding them to consistently successful outcomes. 
• Work to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives and direction.
• Build processes to proactively identify and address technical issues as part of team delivery or escalate larger initiatives for prioritization with team leadership.
• Provide technical mentoring for engineers across the team and facilitate learning through pairing, documentation, and workshops.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a deeply technical, creative, collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivated, and inquisitive leader to join our team in building great software. If you love solving hard problems, delivering and sustaining high-quality software, and confidently guiding your peers to learn from and teach each other, we’d love to talk with you!

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 5+ years experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++
• 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives, including the design, development, and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring delivery of reliable services, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and/or driving technical vision.

Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:

• 5+ years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services
• Experience working with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP 
• 3 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including::

• Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
• Get acclimated to the team's current Objectives and Key Results, along with future product roadmap priorities.
• 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) that ensure a world-class customer experience, as well as the SLOs and SLIs we use to proactively track our performance against our SLAs.
• Collaborate regularly with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other product teams to deliver value to our users.
• Embrace regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Begin operating as the access domain’s technical owner by leading initiatives, coordinating with stakeholders, and assuming responsibility for our quality of service.
• Work with product managers, UX developers, back-end and front-end engineers to lead your first feature delivery, with deliverables broken into an MVP and iterative milestones.
• Proactively build relationships with members on other teams through active networking and community building.
• Decompose work into small, similarly-sized units so that task-level estimation is trivial.
• Become an active participant in code reviews and retrospectives, continuously providing guidance and feedback to others.
• Foster a positive culture on your teams as an intri