Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Sprout Social's Engineering team as an Engineering Manager. You will build and lead a high-functioning engineering team, focusing on delivering quality results and maintaining scalable software systems. Leverage your experience to grow your team through coaching and development, while leading them through product and technical roadmaps. Drive consistent execution, uphold development standards, and utilize data to monitor team performance. This role requires a results-oriented, collaborative leader passionate about solving complex problems and fostering a culture of learning and collaboration. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building and managing high-performing engineering teams and delivering successful projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in building, scaling, and maintaining enterprise level software systems in a production environment, with expertise in back-end development and a focus on high availability solutions
• 4+ years of experience managing and leading high performing engineering teams, with a strong emphasis on delivery, execution, and achieving measurable business outcomes
• 4+ years of experience delivering engineering projects and initiatives, including ensuring the delivery of a team’s roadmap, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and communicating progress with business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Build a high functioning, well-motivated engineering team and lead them to iteratively deliver quality results
• Leverage your experience in building and maintaining highly scalable and reliable software systems to grow and tune our software services stack
• Grow your team of engineers by example with effective feedback, coaching, and career development
• Lead the team through product and technical road maps, and partner with cross functional and engineering leaders to align on strategy, planning and execution for your team
• Drive consistent, high-quality execution by setting clear expectations, regularly tracking progress on deliverables, and proactively addressing challenges
• Uphold standards for development and product quality for your team and support team’s on-call rotations
• Leverage data and metrics to monitor team performance, ensure accountability, establish KPIs to meet OKR and roadmap goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to drive strategic change within engineering teams, balancing short term delivery goals with long term technical sustainability and product growth
• Experience developing enterprise level distributed applications using distributed queuing systems, service-oriented architectures, etc
• Experience with data systems operating at scale, Elasticsearch, MySQL, HBase, etc
• Experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++

Benefits

• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
• $550 USD work from home stipend designed to enhance your remote setup and monthly internet stipend
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices near Kraków’s city centre