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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Platform(Java) - **Company:** Sprout Social - **Location:** Krakow, WI, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $29,500.0 - $36,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Apache HBase, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, NoSQL, Standard Sql, Technical Debt, Backend, Kubernetes, Build Process - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pm2uundm63 ## About the Role * 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment * 5+ years experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++ * 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives, including the design, development, and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring delivery of reliable services, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and/or driving technical vision. * Professional English proficiency in verbal and written communication * Based in or near Kraków, with occasional availability to work from the office Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate: * 5+ years experience developing and supporting scalable, distributed backend services * Experience working with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP * 3 years experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases * Professional Polish proficiency in verbal and written communication ## Description * Ensure service excellence and maintain robust, scalable technical foundations, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, NSQ, Hbase, AWS, and Kubernetes. * Help lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps, guiding them to consistently successful outcomes. * Work to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products and champion technical initiatives and direction. * Build processes to proactively identify and address technical issues as part of team delivery or escalate larger initiatives for prioritization with team leadership. * Provide technical mentoring for engineers across the team and facilitate learning through pairing, documentation, and workshops. What You'll Bring We're looking for a deeply technical, creative, collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivated, and inquisitive leader to join our team in building great software. If you love solving hard problems, delivering and sustaining high-quality software, and confidently guiding your peers to learn from and teach each other, we'd love to talk with you!, * Complete Sprout's New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members. * Get acclimated to the team's current Objectives and Key Results, along with future product roadmap priorities. * Learn about our current multi-product Identity and Access Management technical vision. * Deploy and make changes to our production systems. * Become familiar with the team's current Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that ensure a world-class customer experience, as well as the SLOs and SLIs we use to proactively track our performance against our SLAs. * Collaborate regularly with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other product teams to deliver value to our users. * Embrace regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing. Within 3 months, you will: * Begin operating as the access domain's technical owner by leading initiatives, coordinating with stakeholders, and assuming responsibility for our quality of service. * Work with product managers, UX developers, back-end and front-end engineers to lead your first feature delivery, with deliverables broken into an MVP and iterative milestones. * Proactively build relationships with members on other teams through active networking and community building. * Decompose work into small, similarly-sized units so that task-level estimation is trivial. * Become an active participant in code reviews and retrospectives, continuously providing guidance and feedback to others. * Foster a positive culture on your teams as an intrinsic side effect of the way you communicate and collaborate. * Work with your team to create and prioritize quarterly team goals. * Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty. Within 6 months, you will: * Design, create, and maintain access platform solutions that execute at internet scale in a cost effective manner. * Apply your expertise to enhance our existing use of monitoring and alerting tools, thereby ensuring we know about problems before our end users or other back-end teams reliant on our platform. * Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, and release them to production. * Frequently partner with other engineers to iterate on our existing technical strategy in service of our overall vision. * Lead technical design planning and facilitate peer review for new feature ideas. * Mentor engineers, helping them level up technically. * Author your career growth plan with your manager's support and work towards it. Within 12 months, you will: * Be the go-to expert of your teams' systems at the company. * Utilize the cross-organization connections you've built to identify areas of need across our platform, and create plans that incorporate big-picture technical alignment with other leaders. * Own cross-organizational projects and architecture, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership. * Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle. * Have opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout engineers. * Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven't even considered yet. 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