Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Chicago)

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 :

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

How you'll grow

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

Within 3 months, you will :

Within 6 months, you will :

Within 12 months, you will :

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

We're proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes :

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 :

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 employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team me