Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Sprout Social empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today’s digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30000 brands informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation and fostering deeper authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and reporting functionality customer care solutions influencer marketing connected workflows business intelligence and proprietary agentic AI. 

• 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.

We’re looking for an experienced and impact oriented engineer to join our team in building great software. If you enjoy working on cutting edge and rapidly changing technology thinking through secure system design and want to accelerate building generative AI and Agentic AI features we’d love to talk with you! 

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 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. 

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• 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).

Bonus: 

• Experience designing and implementing secure extensible java MCP architectures.
• Experience supporting server-driven UI with the ability to contribute across both platform and web. 

Within 1 month you’ll plant your roots including:

• Completing Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
• Acclimating to the team's current Mission Goals and Objectives along with future product roadmaps.
• Deploying and making changes to our production systems.
• Collaborating regularly with the development team to deliver value to our users.
• Getting regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.
• Proactively monitoring the health of our services in production to ensure our customers always have a world-class experience
  

Within 3 months you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Learning updating and improving Sprout’s existing AI platform services and frameworks.
• Being the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty.
• Working with your dev team to come up with the MVPs of new features.
  

Within 6 months you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Being “point person” on a project including writing design documents coordinating dependencies and acting as domain owner.
• Collaborating with product managers applied AI/ML scientists and web-engineers to identify opportunities for improving the scalability reliability latency and cost of Sprout’s AI systems. 
• Staying up to date with generative AI agentic AI and MCP related technologies and leveraging that knowledge to improve and influence our technical roadmap.
  

Within 12 months you’ll make this role your own by:

• Shipping and making it easier to ship and support AI Agents and generative AI solutions at Sprout. 
• Owning cross-organizational projects and mentoring other engineers to help them grow.
• Surprising us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways.
  

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• 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

Whenever possible Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However we are not set up in all states so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors including whether you’re located in Zone 1 or Zone 2 as well as relevant experience and skills. In the United States we have two geographic pay zones. For this role the expected base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York California Washington): $164200 - $22000 USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $149200 - $220000 USD annually

The listed ranges represent earning potential in this position. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.
Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical dental vision basic life accidental death and dismemberment insurance and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).  Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race color religion national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disability pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the interview process or to submit your application please email us at [email protected]. Include the nature of your request and your preferred contact information. We'll do everything we can to support your success during our recruitment process while upholding your privacy. Please note that only inquiries regarding accommodations will receive a response from this email address; other inquiries will not be addressed (e.g. you send your resume but are not requesting an accommodation).

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster and (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement. 

Additionally Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. 

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What We Do

Sprout Social is a global leader in social media management and analytics software. Sprout’s award-winning platform offers intuitive and comprehensive social media management solutions including publishing and engagement functionality customer care influencer marketing advocacy and AI-powered predictive business intelligence. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago Sprout has a hybrid team of 1400 people across the globe with offices in Seattle Dublin and Poland. Sprout Social is consistently recognized as a best place to work with recent accolades from Fortune Glassdoor Built In and more.

Why Work With Us

We are a diverse team of talented and thoughtful individuals who are driven to push the boundaries of what is possible for our customers. We are dedicated to solving the toughest problems in the industry and even better we have a lot of fun doing it.

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