Senior Software Engineer - Back End

Remote Poland

Engineering

We know experience is built in a number of ways. Even if your background doesn’t match the exact requirements, we encourage you to apply and share any relevant skills in a cover letter. Sprout welcomes all candidates to apply, including those who identify as BIPOC, women and underrepresented genders in tech, LGBTQIA+, parents, veterans, persons with disabilities and people of all faiths.

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to the 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.

What you’ll do

• Ensure we build, scale, ship, and monitor our platform reliably, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and complete feature work.
• Work to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives and direction.
• Uphold project quality and planning through meeting deadlines, breaking down work, and ensuring proper testing and monitoring
• Lift the skills of other engineers through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and providing feedback on PRs and technical designs.

What you’ll bring

Minimum qualifications:

• 4 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 3 years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Python, or C++
• Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services
• 3 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
• Professional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication

Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. The base pay range for this role is 24,300 - 33,400 net PLN Monthly salary PLN monthly.