Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Sprout Social's Engineering team as an Engineering Manager and lead a high-performing team building tools to automate customer tasks. You will build and maintain scalable software systems, grow your team through coaching and development, and lead the team through product roadmaps. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in building enterprise-level software systems and 4+ years managing engineering teams. Preferred qualifications include experience with distributed applications and data systems at scale. Sprout offers a comprehensive benefits package including insurance, paid time off, parental leave, wellness initiatives, and professional development opportunities. The role offers flexibility with remote work options available in many US states.

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

• 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 and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• 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 in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
• Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter
• Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit)
• Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution
• Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays