Software Engineer - Platform

Description

Within 1 month, you will Complete Sprouts New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.Develop and deploy changes to our Java and Python production systems.Interact with MySQL data stores and NSQ messaging queues.Collaborate regularly with your product manager, QA engineers, and fellow developers to deliver value to our users.Log into our remote Linux servers and monitor the status of our services.Get regular team feedback on your code through code reviews.Within 3 months, you will Focus on code quality with meaningful test coverage and legibility.Decompose work into small, similarly sized units so that estimation is unnecessary.Work with your product manager and fellow developers to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.Contribute to our Agile culture of continuous improvement through retrospective meetings and experimentationoriented thinking.Build connections with members from other teams through guild meetings and chapter outings.Participate in technical design meetings with your teammates to walk through new feature ideas.Work with Product Managers, UX developers, and Front End Designers to come up with the MVPs of new features.Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty.Maintain and build upon systems that handle hundreds of thousands of messages a day.Within 6 months, you will Write design documents, coordinate dependencies, and act as the domain owner for new projects.Integrate and use monitoring and alerting tools to know about problems before our users.Be point person on a project, including writing design documents, coordinating dependencies, and acting as domain owner.Create and manage concurrent, distributed systems.Build your engineering skills by attending inhouse presentations, workshops, and training sessions.Form a career growth plan with your manager and work towards it.Partner with the Infrastructure team to improve your teams ability to deliver reliable, highly available services.Within 12 months, you will Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle.Lead technical architecture meetings.Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve the code, and get it pushed to production.Mentor junior developers, helping them level up technically.Build connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building.Have opportunities to contribute to inhouse technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout developers.Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we havent even considered yet.