Staff Backend Engineer - Remote, Scale Distributed Systems

Sway; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 329,000 - 493,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

26 paid days off

Parental Leave

Lifestyle Spending Account

Remote & Hybrid Work Support

Mental Health & Well-being

International Travel

Kraków Office Lunch stipend

Job summary

Sprout Social is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join the Engineering team in Kraków, Poland. You will lead and mentor engineers, shape the backend architecture, and drive scalable services across data pipelines using Scala, Java, and AWS.

You’ll partner with product and SRE teams, own technical roadmaps, and help deliver high-quality, reliable software at a global scale. Strong OO and FP background and excellent English are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production software experience.
• 5+ years in OO languages such as Scala/VM languages.
• 5+ years in functional programming.
• 3+ years leading engineering projects and distributed systems.
• Professional English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Ensure service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations using Scala, MySQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Kafka, NSQ, AWS, Python, Java.
• Lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps, guiding them to successful outcomes.
• Improve processes, systems, and tools to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives.
• Build processes to proactively identify and address technical issues during delivery or larger initiatives with leadership.
• Provide technical mentoring for engineers across the team and facilitate learning through pairing and workshops.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

NSQ

AWS

English

Tools

ClickHouse

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Sprout Social is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join the Engineering team in Kraków, Poland. You will lead and mentor engineers, shape the backend architecture, and drive scalable services across data pipelines using Scala, Java, and AWS.

You’ll partner with product and SRE teams, own technical roadmaps, and help deliver high-quality, reliable software at a global scale. Strong OO and FP background and excellent English are essential.