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You'll join the Publishing team, which delivers millions of social messages to networks like Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok and is used by 75% of all Sprout customers every month.\n\nWhy join Sprout’s Engineering team?\nWith 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. \nWhat you’ll do\nEnsure we build, scale, ship, and monitor our platform reliably, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes.\nPartner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and complete feature work.\nWork to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives and direction.\nUphold project quality and planning through meeting deadlines, breaking down work, and ensuring proper testing and monitoring\nLift the skills of other engineers through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and providing feedback on PRs and technical designs.\nWhat you’ll bring\nWe’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!\nThese are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:\n4 years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment\n3 years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Python, or C++\nProfessional English proficiency in verbal and written communication\nAdditionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:\n3 years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services\n3 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases\nExperience building web applications with React, TypeScript and/or similar web technologies.\nExperience working as a full stack engineer.\nProfessional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication\nHow you’ll grow\nWithin 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:\nCompleting Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.\nDeploying and making changes to our production systems.\nInteracting with SQL or NoSQL data stores and NSQ messaging queues.\nCollaborating regularly with product managers, and other product teams to deliver value to our users.\nGetting regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.\nProactively monitoring the health of our services in production to ensure our customers always have a world-class experience\nWithin 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:\nDecomposing work into small, similarly sized units so that estimation is unnecessary.\nWorking with your squad to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.\nContributing to our Agile culture of continuous improvement through retrospective meetings and experimentation-oriented thinking.\nBuilding connections with members from other teams through guild meetings and chapter outings.\nParticipating in technical design meetings with your teammates to walk through new feature ideas. \nWorking with product managers, UX developers, and front-end engineers to come up with the MVPs of new features.\nBeing the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty.\nMaintaining, scaling, and building upon systems that handle millions requests and messages a day. \nWithin 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:\nIntegrating and using monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users.\nBeing “point person” on a project, including prototyping, writing design documents, coordinating dependencies, and acting as domain owner.\nCreating and managing concurrent, distributed systems.\nBuilding your engineering skills by attending in-house presentations, workshops, and training sessions.\nForming a career growth plan with your manager and work towards it.\nPartnering with the Infrastructure team to improve your team’s ability to deliver reliable, highly available services.\nWithin 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:\nActively mitigating risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle.\nLeading technical architecture meetings. \nIdentifying technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve the code, and get it pushed to production.\nMentoring junior engineers, helping them level up technically.\nBuilding connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building.\nHaving opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout engineers.\nSurprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet.\n*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.\nOur Benefits Program\n We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:\n Stock Ownership (RSUs): Eligibility for Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)\nGenerous Paid Time Off: 26 paid days off annually, in addition to bank holidays and extra company-wide \"Rest & Recharge\" days.\nPaid Parental Leave: We support all growing families with 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 16 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.\n Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): An annual $600 USD fund to support your personal well-being. This can be used for gym memberships, health expenses, hobbies, or other wellness needs.\nRemote & Hybrid Work Support: A flexible, remote-first model supported by a one-time $550 USD home office setup stipend and a monthly internet reimbursement.\nMental Health & Well-being: Access to dedicated mental health resources and company-wide wellness programs.\nKraków Office Perks: A daily 50 zł lunch stipend when you choose to work from our office.\n*This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits.\n\nOur salary ranges reflect the expected earning potential for this role. Individual pay is based on geographic zone, relevant experience, and skills.\nOur current hiring range for this role: 24,300 PLN - 30,400 PLN Nett monthly. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.\nWe share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy. This ensures you understand not only your starting potential but also the long-term growth opportunities available as you progress in your role.\nThe full base pay range for this role is 24,300 PLN - 36,500 PLN monthly.\nThese 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.\nWhenever possible, we want to provide team members the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. 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