Senior Platform Software Engineer

Sprout Social

(Chicago, Illinois)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
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.
Summary
In this role you’ll design, code, and grow our backend services, the lifeblood of our product. We have a strong focus on scale, reliability, performance and product agility, and that means picking the right tool for the job, while being pragmatic and scrappy. We build services in Python and Java using technologies like Cassandra, Redis, NSQ, and MySQL. A little about our company, Sprout Social is used by 19,000 brands around the world. Companies like Adobe, Pivotal Labs, Google, Marvel, and Evernote rely on our products to create stronger relationships with their customers through social media. We’re looking for smart, creative, driven people to build great software with us. If you’re the best at what you do, we’d love to talk.
Responsibilities
* Be a major individual contributor of coding * Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, code reviews, and pair programming * Own and share responsibility for strategically scaling our systems * Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches * Proactively mentor junior engineers * Drive project teams to build in Sprout’s best interests by being cognizant of business requirements, market need, customer pains, etc.
Ideal Candidate
* Smart, a very quick learner, and gets things done * Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or comparable knowledge of CS theory * Minimum of 5 years of software development experience at scale * History with lower-level languages (Java, C, C++) * Heavy SQL and NoSQL database experience * Strong applied knowledge of concurrency, I/O and distributed systems * Experience with every stage of software development process: design, architecture, deployment, code reviews, maintenance, documentation, etc. * Great at working in a team * Very clear written and verbal communicator
Compensation and Working Conditions
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