Staff Software Engineer - Back End

Remote Poland

Engineering

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to the Engineering team.

Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?

With collaborative cross-functional teams that span 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 service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations, leveraging technologies such as Scala, Python, MySQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Kafka, Qdrant, Solr
• 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

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 5+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Scala and/or other JVM languages,
• 5+ years experience with functional programming paradigms and ecosystems (e.g., Scala Cats, ZIO)"
• 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.
• Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication

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

• 5+ years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services
• 3 years experience working with SQL 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 29,500 (min) - 40,500 net (max) PLN monthly.