At Sprout Social we are building software that is made to last. Our 20,000+ customers rely on us daily to reliably connect them with their customers, so scalability and performance are top of mind. Sprout Social is used by companies like Evernote, Grubhub, Subaru and Edelman who rely on Sprout to create stronger relationships with their customers through social media. 

Embedded as a member of one of our cross-functional engineering squads, you will be part of the day-to-day Agile development environment. Our engineers work in tandem with all of our engineering chapters (platform, web, QA, and mobile), product designers, and product managers to drive our product initiatives to successful outcomes. Our small teams (7-10 people) provide a friendly atmosphere to learn while shipping production software.

Code quality is an essential ingredient to keeping our platform flexible and rapidly reacting to changes in the market and social media networks. Our systems execute at scale while staying nimble enough to keep up with new capabilities being offered by social network APIs. Our platform team uses a variety of technologies, including Java, Python, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, NSQ, Docker, and Kubernetes. Our web team uses React and Redux to build a world class customer experience. 

We’re looking for a creative, collaborative, highly motivated, and inquisitive learner to build great software with us. If you’re passionate about learning, solving complex problems, and building web applications using cutting edge technologies, we’d love to talk with you!

Note: Applicants to this role should plan to start full-time in the summer of 2020 in our Chicago HQ.

The Experience:

• Expected degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field in December 2019 or Spring 2020
• Experience with some of the technologies and languages within our stack: Java, Python, Javascript 
• Previous software engineering internship experience highly preferred

Within 1 month, you will:

• Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
• Deliver business value by shipping your first code change with active pairing/mentoring from your teammates.
• Learn how code is deployed to our end users through collaboration with engineers on your team.
• Collaborate regularly with your product manager, product designer and fellow engineers to deliver value to our users.
• Get regular team feedback on your code through code reviews.
• Start 1:1s with your manager to help you navigate your career path

Within 3 months, you will:

• Focus on code quality with meaningful test coverage and legibility.
• Have a firm understanding of the team’s roadmap and the team’s Agile processes
• 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.
• Attend technical design meetings with your teammates to walk through new feature ideas. 
• Maintain and build upon systems that handle hundreds of thousands of messages a day. 
• Build your engineering skills by attending in-house presentations, workshops, and training sessions.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Independently own and deliver stories with peer consultation given user acceptance criteria and visual mockups.
• Work with your product manager and fellow developers to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.
• Work with product managers, UX developers, and front-end engineers to come up with the MVPs of new features.
• Form a career growth plan with your manager and work towards it.

Within 12 months, you will:

• Have a track record of owning and delivering small-to-medium features on time, from implementation to testing to final delivery.
• Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users.
• Participate in architecture discussions with senior team members.
• Understand trade-offs that exist with engineering solutions, knowing that solutions can favor faster delivery with less strict technical requirements or solutions can favor future technical maintainability with delayed delivery of customer value.
• Contribute to technical initiatives that improve the health of the team’s systems.
• Understand how the team uses frameworks and software dependencies and help keep them up to date

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.

About Sprout Social
Sprout Social powers open communication between individuals, brands and communities through elegant, sophisticated software. We are relentless about solving hard problems for our customers and committed to both customer and team success.

Team Sprout is a group of very talented, smart and passionate people with broad interests and backgrounds. We believe that true employee engagement cannot happen if you can’t bring your whole self to work, so we’re committed to building a diverse team, embracing an inclusive culture and investing in equity across our organization. That dedication is core to Sprout. We want all candidates, particularly those coming from traditionally underrepresented groups in the technology industry, to know they are welcome at Sprout.

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for software, product and company culture achievements. Our team’s shared belief in Sprout’s mission promotes a culture of openness, empowerment and fun. We have built a benefits program to match the strength of our team. This program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families, including generous company contributions
• Progressive benefit programs, like our parental leave program and free bike share memberships
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment - your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago's loop
• Solid programs in some of the staples: transportation, disability and life insurance
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and financial well-being of our team
• Breakfast and lunch options onsite, and more healthy snack options and beverages than you can imagine
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members