Engineering Manager

About the position

Sprout Social is looking to hire an Engineering Manager to join our 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.

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.

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++.

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.
• Flexible work location options, including remote work.