Sprout Social enables over 30,000 leading brands and agencies around the world to deliver social media engagement, advocacy, and analytics solutions. These include the Chicago Bulls, Sony Electronics, Indiana University, Make-a-wish Foundation, Edelman, and Subaru. We value solving hard problems, building elegant software, and ensuring customer and team success.
We are looking for a Senior Web Engineer to join our Brand Creative team and help maintain our web properties and infrastructure that power all things public-facing. You would be helping create performant and accessible web pages that drive inbound trials, demos, and leads. This is an opportunity to solve technical challenges as well as have opportunities to mentor and pair with more associate engineers on the team.
Brand Creative is a multi-disciplinary team of copywriters, visual and web designers, video producers, and web engineers, in a sense, we're an internal creative services team. Brand Creative Web Engineers and are here to implement the online elements that drive user growth, broadcast our brand, and tell our product story. Our web properties have unique web technologies that enable marketers to do their jobs effectively, and we're looking for someone to continue pushing the boundaries of what our technology stack could look like. We're looking for a compassionate engineer who is looking for a position ideating on reliable and cutting edge technologies to benefit developer experience as well as enabling marketers to effectively tell our product story. If creating systems for performant and accessible web properties is interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you.
Qualifications
These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 3+ years of experience with front-end web development technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS, Netlify, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience managing and maintaining a content management system such as WordPress, Drupal, or a homegrown solution

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

• Experience mentoring and coaching junior/associate level developers
• Experience with continuous integration such as Jenkins or TravisCI as well as implementing unit tests and performance monitoring

Within 1 month, you will:

• Experience Sprout's in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers.
• Work with your manager to define your career goals and formulate a plan to make progress towards them.
• Gain an understanding of the roadmap and processes by having discussions with your collaborators and manager.
• Meet your teammates in UX, Design, Marketing, and Project Management and understand how Brand Creative plays a strategic role at Sprout.
• Understand how code is deployed to our end users through paired programming with fellow web engineers on your team.
• Deliver business value by shipping your first web experience with active pairing/mentoring from your teammates.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Write unit tests for each feature that is built.
• Ship a small-to-medium-sized feature in Brand Creative with the assistance of your manager and your peers.
• Begin to network with the Marketing stakeholders and understand their needs and KPIs.
• Begin writing design documents for potential future improvements to the technological stack.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Begin to pair/mentor more associate-level members of the Brand Creative team.
• Take ownership of code reviews and start advocating for industry best practices.
• Begin implementing linting strategies as well continuous integration improvements to increase developer productivity.
• Documented all processes and code that you found to not have as much documentation as necessary.

Within 12 months, you will:

• Own Marketing's KPIs as your own, and act as a resource to help influence and shape them for success.
• Implement a large-scale initiative from lightbulb moment to retrospective, and document the process.

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. Our team's shared belief in Sprout's mission promotes a culture of openness, empowerment and fun.
We're proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment-your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago's Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. For those that prefer an office setting, this role may be based in our Chicago or Seattle locations. If you prefer to work from your home, we can accommodate that for many locations across the United States. We are not set up in all states, however, so please take a look at the drop down box in our application to see whether your state is listed.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity - race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our 2021 DEI Report .
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