NewsWhip by Sprout Social
In today’s social and news landscape, stories don't just break in one place. They break everywhere, all at once. NewsWhip by Sprout Social is built to give global brands and publishers real-time intelligence on what’s happening, anywhere. It combines robust monitoring, predictive analytics, and cutting-edge AI Agents that act like an embedded analyst to help detect rising narratives, predict real-world impact and guide timely, confident action. From risk mitigation to editorial strategy, some of the world’s most innovative brands and leading newsrooms trust NewsWhip by Sprout Social to cut through the noise, track momentum and keep them ahead of fast-moving stories.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2011
Senior Backend Engineer – Applications
Job not on LinkedIn
November 9
NewsWhip by Sprout Social
In today’s social and news landscape, stories don't just break in one place. They break everywhere, all at once. NewsWhip by Sprout Social is built to give global brands and publishers real-time intelligence on what’s happening, anywhere. It combines robust monitoring, predictive analytics, and cutting-edge AI Agents that act like an embedded analyst to help detect rising narratives, predict real-world impact and guide timely, confident action. From risk mitigation to editorial strategy, some of the world’s most innovative brands and leading newsrooms trust NewsWhip by Sprout Social to cut through the noise, track momentum and keep them ahead of fast-moving stories.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2011
📋 Description
• Develop features and improvements to NewsWhip products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way • Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance • Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity. • Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years working in a Product Engineering team • Experience collaborating with Product, Design and Frontend Engineering disciplines to deliver data-insight led features including activities relating to scoping, prototyping & research, identification of risks/uncertainties etc. • Knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices • Willingness to get things done, learn new things, take initiative and challenge existing assumptions and conventions • Experience with Java and/or Scala • Experience building and deploying to any cloud service (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.) • Experience with building APIs for exposing rich datasets • Nice to have: Working with the Lightbend Reactive Platform of Scala, Akka or Play Framework • Building an architecture to support rapid and stable product iteration cycles • Significant development experience working on customer-facing and web-based systems • Experience working in an agile environment with iterative development and fast feedback • Working with storage systems such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka and MySQL • Experience with observability principals (Instrumentation, Tracing, Telemetry) • Experience with IaC and DevOps methodologies • Knowledge of basic Linux administration, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive salary • Health insurance • Pension • Great working environment - remote first or hybrid model • An opportunity to help define an entirely new industry category
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