Staff Software Engineer - Platform(Java)

Sprout Social

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

Hybrid · Kraków, Poland

Experience

Senior · 7+ years

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Backend on Sprout Social's Engineering team, acting as technical owner of the access domain and leading backend initiatives at internet scale.

At a glance

Employment: Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode: Hybrid · Kraków, Poland
Languages: English – fluent
Pay: PLN 29,500 – 36,800 / month

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 used 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.
Begin operating as the access domain's technical owner by leading initiatives, coordinating with stakeholders, and assuming responsibility for quality of service.
Design, create, and maintain access platform solutions that execute at internet scale in a cost effective manner.
Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, and release them to production.
Lead technical design planning and facilitate peer review for new feature ideas.
Own cross-organizational projects and architecture, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership.

What we're looking for

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
Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication
Based in or near Kraków, with occasional availability to work from the office

Nice to have

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

Your team

Engineering

Collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end and site reliability engineering; processes tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events, ingests billions of social messages every day, and ships more than 1,000 production deployments every month.

Benefits

Stock Ownership (RSUs): Eligibility for Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
26 paid days off annually, in addition to bank holidays and extra company-wide "Rest & Recharge" days
Paid Parental Leave: 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 16 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents
Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): an annual $600 USD fund to support personal well-being
Remote & Hybrid Work Support: a one-time $550 USD home office setup stipend and a monthly internet reimbursement
Access to dedicated mental health resources and company-wide wellness programs
Opportunities to travel to our Chicago HQ for team meetups and collaboration
Kraków Office Perks: a daily 50 zł lunch stipend when you choose to work from our office

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About Sprout Social

Key facts

Chicago
Processes tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events
Ingests billions of social messages every day
Ships more than 1,000 production deployments every month
Product is a suite, so engineers can move teams to diversify skills