Engineering Manager

Sprout Social, Inc.

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $185,100 - $305,448 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

ElasticSearchHBaseJavaMySQLPython

About the role

Build a high functioning, well-motivated engineering team and lead them to iteratively deliver quality results.
Leverage 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.
Drive consistent, high-quality execution by setting clear expectations, tracking progress, and proactively addressing challenges.
Uphold development and product quality standards and support team’s on-call rotations.
Use data and metrics to monitor team performance, establish KPIs to meet OKR and roadmap goals.
Participate in architectural discussions and decisions to push your team to successful outcomes.
Manage support week rotations, guide the team through major feature launches, and balance technical debt with product features.
Lead performance reviews, career band calibration, hiring and interviewing processes, and identify growth opportunities for engineers.

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.
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++.