Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to the Engineering team. Why join Sprout’s Engineering team? With collaborative cross-functional teams that span front-end, back-end and site reliability engineering—the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. On a daily basis, we process tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events. We also ingest billions of social messages every day, and ship more than 1,000 production deployments every month. You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers. The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You’re able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team—but also your career. What you’ll do - Ensure service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations, leveraging technologies such as Scala, Python, MySQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Kafka, Qdrant, Solr - Help lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps, guiding them to consistently successful outcomes. - Work to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use 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. What you’ll bring We’re looking for a deeply technical, creative, collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivated, and inquisitive leader to join our team in building great software. If you love solving hard problems, delivering and sustaining high-quality software, and confidently guiding your peers to learn from and teach each other, we’d love to talk with you! The minimum qualifications for this role include: - 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment - 5+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Scala and/or other JVM languages, - 5+ years experience with functional programming paradigms and ecosystems (e.g., Scala Cats, ZIO)" - 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 Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate: - 5+ years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services - 3 years experience working with SQL databases - Professional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication How you’ll grow Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:: - Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members. - Get acclimated to the team's current Objectives and Key Results, along with future product roadmap priorities. - Learn about our current multi-product Identity and Access Management technical vision. - Deploy and make changes to our production systems. - Become familiar with the team’s current Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that ensure a world-class customer experience, as well as the SLOs and SLIs we use to proactively track our performance against our SLAs. - Collaborate regularly with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other product teams to deliver value to our users. - Embrace regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing. Within 3 months, you will: - Begin operating as the access domain’s technical owner by leading initiatives, coordinating with stakeholders, and assuming responsibility for our quality of service. - Work with product managers, UX developers, back-end and front-end engineers to lead your first feature delivery, with deliverables broken into an MVP and iterative milestones. - Proactively build relationships with members on other teams through active networking and community building. - Decompose work into small, similarly-sized units so that task-level estimation is trivial. - Become an active participant in code reviews and retrospectives, continuously providing guidance and feedback to others. - Foster a positive culture on your teams as an intrinsic side effect of the way you communicate and collaborate. - Work with your team to create and prioritize quarterly team goals. - Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty. Within 6 months, you will: - Design, create, and maintain access platform solutions that execute at internet scale in a cost effective manner. - Apply your expertise to enhance our existing use of monitoring and alerting tools, thereby ensuring we know about problems before our end users or other back-end teams reliant on our platform. - Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, and release them to production. - Frequently partner with other engineers to iterate on our existing technical strategy in service of our overall vision. - Lead technical design planning and facilitate peer review for new feature ideas. - Mentor engineers, helping them level up technically. - Author your career growth plan with your manager’s support and work towards it. Within 12 months, you will: - Be the go-to expert of your teams’ systems at the company. - Utilize the cross-organization connections you’ve built to identify areas of need across our platform, and create plans that incorporate big-picture technical alignment with other leaders. - Own cross-organizational projects and architecture, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership. - Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle. - Have opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout engineers. - 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. Our Benefits Program We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes: - Stock Ownership (RSUs): Eligibility for Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) - Generous Paid Time Off: 26 paid days off annually, in addition to bank holidays and extra company-wide "Rest & Recharge" days. - Paid Parental Leave: We support all growing families with 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 your personal well-being. This can be used for gym memberships, health expenses, hobbies, or other wellness needs. - Remote & Hybrid Work Support: A flexible, remote-first model supported by a one-time $550 USD home office setup stipend and a monthly internet reimbursement. - Mental Health & Well-being: Access to dedicated mental health resources and company-wide wellness programs. - International Travel: 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. *This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. The base pay range for this role is 29,500 (min) - 40,500 net (max) PLN monthly. The listed ranges represent earning potential in this position. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed. Whenever possible, we want to provide team members the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. If you prefer an office setting, this role may be based in our Kraków location. If you prefer to work remotely from another location within Poland, we will accommodate you as best as possible. If you are based in another location within EMEA, we aren’t able to hire in your location at this time. #LI-REMOTE Sprout Social Inc. and its subsidiaries process personal data submitted through your application to assess your qualifications for employment and to inform our hiring decision and, where applicable, for required governmental reporting. For more information, please review Sprout's Global Applicant Privacy Notice.

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Role Description Appfire is looking for a Senior Backend Java Developer to help evolve a modern, cloud-based SaaS platform. You’ll design new backend functionality, optimize existing services, and support systems used by thousands of tenants. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Engineering and works cross-functionally with product, UX, and frontend partners to deliver reliable, well-tested SaaS solutions. You can choose to work remotely from anywhere in Bulgaria. Your everyday tasks will include: - Designing and implementing new functionalities while maintaining and optimizing existing ones. - Ensuring high code quality through rigorous testing (unit, integration) and peer code reviews. - Collaborating with Product Owners, UX/UI designers, and frontend teams. - Solving performance-related challenges to ensure system stability and speed. - Contributing to technical discussions and helping the team solve production issues. Technical Highlights: - Add your value to complex yet well-designed application, having over 100 modules and fully-fledged Domain-Driven Design (ubiquitous language, aggregates, domain events etc.) - Practice your craftsmanship in good design (clean code, SOLID, Inversion of Control) and in various architectures (hexagonal, event-driven, pipes&filters, modular monoliths, microservices and more) - Thoroughly test what you build: with unit, integration and e2e tests (Spock, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, REST Assured, WireMock, Testcontainers, Cypress) - Learn our advanced cloud (SaaS) architecture: serving thousands of tenants (multitenant architecture), continuously monitored and profiled (ELK, async-profiler), and with state of the art release process (feature flags, canary releases). We use AWS and GCP. Help us advance our cloud architecture further - Practice other cool approaches and tools like reactive programming, Event Sourcing, Apache Kafka or Redis - Feel safe with our extensive CI process that automatically runs unit, integration, e2e, architecture, migration and performance tests on your commit Qualifications - Solid Java Foundation: Strong practical knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate, and SQL. - Clean Code & Patterns: A good understanding of SOLID principles and common design patterns to keep the codebase maintainable. - Testing & Tools: Proficiency in JUnit/Spock, Git, Maven, and Docker. - Production-Ready Mindset: Experience in evolving and scaling established systems (beyond just greenfield projects) and a focus on long-term code maintainability. - Performance Awareness: Ability to use profiling tools and a focus on writing efficient code that performs well under load. - Cloud Basics: Understanding of SaaS architecture and cloud environments (AWS or GCP). Requirements - You are dedicated to elevating client and co-worker experiences, knowing that exceptional work centers on serving others. - You adapt swiftly to new business demands, understanding that change fuels collective and individual growth. - You excel in communication, effectively connecting in remote/hybrid environments using tools like Slack, Zoom, and G Suite and through occasional in-person events. - You have exceptional coaching, mentoring, and people development skills. Benefits - 25 paid days off, regardless of years of experience - Private healthcare - Sofia public transport card - Multisport card - Development opportunities via our Appfire University

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