Remote-First Senior Scala Platform Engineer

Sprout Social, Inc.; Poland; Remote; PLN 271,000 - 407,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend Kraków office

Remote & Hybrid Work Support

Mental Health & Well-being resources

International travel opportunities

Job summary

Sprout Social, Inc. in Kraków seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Engineering team. You will work across front-end, back-end, and site reliability, building and scaling a production platform at a tech-giant scale with a collaborative team.

You'll use Scala, Python, MySQL, Kafka, and more to deliver reliable services. The role emphasizes mentorship, strong code quality, and collaboration with product and design teams to drive impact.

Qualifications

• 4 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment.
• 3 years experience programming in object oriented languages such as Scala or other JVM languages.
• 3 years experience with functional programming paradigms and ecosystems (e.g., Scala Cats, ZIO).
• Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication.
• 3 years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services.
• 3 years experience working with SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Ensure we build, scale, ship, and monitor our platform reliably.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and complete feature work.
• Improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives and direction.
• Uphold project quality and planning through meeting deadlines, breaking down work, and ensuring proper testing and monitoring.
• Lift the skills of other engineers through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and providing feedback on PRs and technical designs.

Skills

Scala / JVM languages

Functional programming

English proficiency

Tools

Scala

Python

MySQL

Kafka

Redis

Clickhouse

Qdrant

Solr

Job description

Sprout Social, Inc. in Kraków seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Engineering team. You will work across front-end, back-end, and site reliability, building and scaling a production platform at a tech-giant scale with a collaborative team.

You'll use Scala, Python, MySQL, Kafka, and more to deliver reliable services. The role emphasizes mentorship, strong code quality, and collaboration with product and design teams to drive impact.