Senior Software Engineer, AI

Sprout Social, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer developing AI and agentic features at Sprout Social. Collaborating on innovative software solutions to enhance social media insights and connections.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$130,000 - CA$195,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetesMySQLPythonRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure we build, scale, ship, and monitor our AI and Agent platforms reliably, leveraging technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis, AWS, and Kubernetes.
Integrate generative AI and agentic AI across Sprout’s existing ecosystem and infrastructure, helping define and build frameworks for platform AI enablement.
Build with AI and agentic AI in your own work, using tools such as Claude Code.
Influence and contribute to technical roadmaps by researching and prototyping emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and state of the art methods.
Partner with product managers, designers, applied AI/ML scientists, and other engineers to define requirements and complete feature work.
Uphold project quality and planning through meeting deadlines, breaking down work, and ensuring proper testing and monitoring.
Contribute to the team’s growth through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and providing feedback on PRs and technical designs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting production-grade backend distributed systems or platform services at scale in languages such as Java or Python.
3+ years of experience improving architectural patterns of large-scale software applications.
1+ years of experience driving root-cause analysis and resolving complex architectural and performance bottlenecks across the entire stack.
1+ years of experience architecting high-throughput, cost-optimized, and scalable systems that power AI-enabled features.
1+ years of experience implementing and leveraging LLM and agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain4j, LangGraph, CrewAI).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythonMySQLOpenSearchRedisAWSKubernetesLLM frameworksagent orchestration frameworksarchitectural patterns

Soft Skills

mentorshipknowledge sharingfeedbackcollaborationinfluencecommunicationplanningproblem-solvingdeadline managementresearch