Software Engineer - Backend

Description

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

Why join Sprouts Engineering team

With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile front-end back-end and site reliability engineeringthe Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. Youll 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. Youre able to diversify your skills which not only benefits your teambut also your career.

What youll do

• 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.

What youll bring

These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 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

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

• 3 years experience developing and supporting scalable distributed backend services
• 3 years experience working with databases
• Familiarity with AWS or other managed cloud services
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with messaging systems
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs

How youll grow

Within 1 month youll plant your roots including:

• Complete Sprout Socials new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. Youll 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 youll 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 youll 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 youll 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.

Our Benefits Program

Were proud to regularly be recognized for our team product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• 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 equipmentyour 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 program and employee-led diversity equity and inclusion initiatives.
• 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 Chicagos Loop and downtown Seattle for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However we are not set up in all states so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors including work location relevant experience and skills the responsibility of the role and job duties/requirements. In the United States we have two geographic pay zones. For this role our current base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York California Washington): $130064 (min) $162600 (mid) $195096 (max) USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $118200 (min) $147800 (mid) $177400 (max) USD annually

The listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employees total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprouts equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical dental vision basic life accidental death and dismemberment insurance and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprouts companys 401k plan in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers Flexible Paid Time Off and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employees full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race color religion national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disability pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

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For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster and (2) Sprout Socials Affirmative Action Statement.

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