Software Engineer - Backend

Sprout Social; Canada; Remote; CAD 102,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media management company is looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to join its team remotely from Canada. The role involves writing clean, well-tested code and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Minimum 3 years of experience in software development and object-oriented programming is required. The position offers a competitive salary with various benefits including work-life balance programs and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off

High-quality equipment

Wellness initiatives

Ongoing education and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 3 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment.
• 3 years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, Python, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, well-tested, and reviewable code.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements.
• Own the code you write and deploy to production.

Skills

Programming in Java

Programming in Python

Using third-party APIs

Working with SQL databases

Working with NoSQL databases

Tools

MySQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

We know experience is built in a number of ways. Even if your background doesn’t match the exact requirements, we encourage you to apply and share any relevant skills in a cover letter. Sprout welcomes all candidates to apply, including those who identify as BIPOC, women and underrepresented genders in tech, LGBTQIA+, parents, veterans, persons with disabilities and people of all faiths.

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Remote Canada

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Software Engineer, Backend to the Engineering team.

Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?

With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, 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

• Write clean, well-tested and reviewable code, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements, complete feature work, and identify blockers
• Own the code you write and deploy to production, including identifying and communicating risks or issues
• Review pull requests and design documents from peers, while recognizing and applying established code patterns and best practices

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a creative, collaborative, highly motivated, and inquisitive learner to help us deliver a great product to our customers. If you’re passionate about building and scaling reliable systems, we’d love to talk with you!

These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 3 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 3 years experience programming in object oriented languages such as Java, C#, Python, or C++

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

• 3 years experience using third party APIs and building resilient systems
• 3 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization.
• Deploy and make changes to our production systems.
• Interact with SQL or NoSQL data stores and messaging queues.
• Collaborate regularly with product managers and other product teams to deliver value to our users.
• Get regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.
• Proactively monitor the health of our services in production to ensure our customers always have a world-class experience

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Work with your team 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 and system improvements.
• Work with product managers, UX developers, and front-end engineers 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, scale, and build upon systems that handle hundreds of thousands of messages a day.

Within 6 months, you’ll be making clear impact through:

• Create, deploy, and manage resilient 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.
• Decompose work into small, similarly sized units so that estimation is unnecessary.
• Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve the code, and get it pushed to production.

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users.
• Participate in architecture discussions with senior team members.
• Be “point person” on a project, including writing design documents, coordinating dependencies, and acting as domain owner.
• Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle.
• Demonstrate ownership over the codebase, from design to maintenance and everything in between.

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 ProgramWe’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

The base pay range for this role is $102,200 (min), $127,800 (mid), $153,400 (max) CAD annually. 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 listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. 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.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Candidates for this remote work opportunity must be based in either British Columbia or Ontario. If you are based in another location within Canada, we aren’t able to hire in your location at this time; however, if you’d like to stay in touch with us in case that changes in the future, please apply and we’ll save your application for possible future consideration.

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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Sprout Social is a global leader in social media management and analytics software. Sprout’s intuitive platform offers comprehensive social media management solutions, including publishing and engagement functionality, customer care, influencer marketing, advocacy, and AI-powered business intelligence to more than 30,000 brands. Founded in 2010, Sprout has a hybrid team located across the globe. Sprout Social has been recognized as a Glassdoor Best Places to Work, PEOPLE Companies that Care, Great Place to Work Best Workplace for Parents and more.

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.