Engineering Manager

Sprout Social • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Sprout Social is looking to hire an Engineering Manager to join our Engineering team. Why join Sprout’s Engineering team? With 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. You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale, steering our engineering team to make an impact on our company and our customers. As a leader of a dynamic team, you will not only influence the architecture, design, and roadmap of your team, but also inform how our products and services interconnect. Join other empathetic leaders on our Engineering Leadership team who help each other grow and learn while we support and guide our teams to deliver world-class products.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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++

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
• Premium Mental Health Support: Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
• Financial Security: 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance for your peace of mind.
• Flexible Paid Time Off: A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
• Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents to support you in expanding your family.
• Annual Lifestyle Stipend: A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
• Work From Home Support: A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
• Giving Back: 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
• Additional Financial Perks: Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line .
• Office Environment: Beautiful, convenient, and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed