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. Code quality is an essential ingredient to keeping our platform flexible and rapidly reacting to changes in the market and social media networks.

We do not operate as lone wolves, cowboy coders, or “10x devs.” Instead, we’re building diverse, collaborative teams that get the best results sustainably. Platform developers work in tandem with Web developers, QA, Design, and management to drive our product initiatives to successful outcomes.

The Publishing team owns the message composition and campaign planning experiences in the Sprout Social application. Our tools allow our users to build and schedule campaigns of messages across their social networks, using message approval workflows to manage content and creators. The Publishing systems execute at scale while staying nimble enough to keep up with new capabilities being offered by social network APIs.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
• Develop and deploy changes to our Java and Python production systems.
• Interact with MySQL data stores and NSQ messaging queues.
• Collaborate regularly with your product manager, QA engineers, and fellow developers to deliver value to our users.
• Log into our remote Linux servers and monitor the status of our services.
• Get regular team feedback on your code through code reviews.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Focus on code quality with meaningful test coverage and legibility.
• Decompose work into small, similarly sized units so that estimation is unnecessary.
• Work with your product manager and fellow developers to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.
• 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.
• Participate in technical design meetings with your teammates to walk through new feature ideas.
• Work with Product Managers, UX developers, and Front End Designers to come up with the MVPs of new features.
• Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty.
• Maintain and build upon systems that handle hundreds of thousands of messages a day.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Write design documents, coordinate dependencies, and act as the domain owner for new projects.
• Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users.
• Be “point person” on a project, including writing design documents, coordinating dependencies, and acting as domain owner.
• Create and manage concurrent, distributed systems.
• Build your engineering skills by attending in-house presentations, workshops, and training sessions.
• Form a career growth plan with your manager and work towards it.
• Partner with the Infrastructure team to improve your team’s ability to deliver reliable, highly available services.

Within 12 months, you will:

• Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle.
• Lead technical architecture meetings.
• Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve the code, and get it pushed to production.
• Mentor junior developers, helping them level up technically.
• Build connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building.
• Have opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout developers.
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet.

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.

Note: When applying please submit your favorite code samples and/or Github profile

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 Divvy bike 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

Sprout Social is an equal opportunity employer. Anyone seeking employment here is considered without regards to 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, Illinois, or local law. We value the things that make us different and want to see how you can make our team better!