Staff Software Engineer, Web (Angular)

Job Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer, Web to the Engineering team. Why join Sprout’s Front-End Engineering team? At Sprout, our method of working across teams is about combining our collective strengths and learning from each other. Joining our Engineering team means closely collaborating with cross-functional teams spanning web, mobile, backend and site reliability engineering teams as well as Product and Design teams in R&D and beyond. Our Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems alongside industry leaders. Our iterative approach ensures that our software solutions meet diverse customer needs. By joining our team, you'll play a pivotal role in driving upcoming transformative product enhancements. What you’ll do Write clean, performant, and maintainable code. Provide technical leadership and guidance to other team members, including less experienced engineers. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including backend developers, designers, and product managers, to deliver world class customer experiences. Participate in and conduct code reviews to maintain code quality, provide feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards. Continuously improve the codebase by identifying areas for refactoring and optimization to enhance maintainability and scalability. What you’ll bring We’re looking for a creative, highly motivated, and inquisitive learner to build great software with us. The minimum qualifications for this role include: 7+ years of experience with planning, building, and releasing web applications with frontend technologies (Angular or other major framework, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS) Strong expertise in TypeScript Fluency in agentic coding workflows (Claude Code/Codex/Cursor) Communication, project management skills from collaborating with people across different teams and functional areas. Preferred qualifications for this role include: Experience building web applications with Angular, RxJS and/or similar web technologies. Experience working as a full stack engineer. Experience working with Node.js or Scala. Experience working in a large codebase. Experience building and/or maintaining an internal UI library. Business, Product and user-oriented mindset. How you’ll grow Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including: Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members. Deliver business value by shipping your first code change with active pairing/mentoring from your teammates. Learn how code is deployed to our end users through collaboration with front end developers on your team. Have a firm understanding of the team’s roadmap and the team’s Agile processes by having discussions with your team’s manager. Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by: Independently own and deliver the front end part of small to medium features without peer consultation Adhere to the team’s engineering best practices, such as testing expectations, shared patterns, and documentation. Openly communicate with all disciplines of the team, including back-end engineers, QA, product design and product managers, in order to move the team’s work forward. Contribute to team processes by participating in team activities, such as code review, estimation, technical specification planning, collaboration in requirements definition, and contribution of feedback during retrospectives. Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through: Author a technical specification plan for a roadmap project and collaborate with teammates to create an agreed upon delivery plan. Mentor junior teammates to provide guidance and coaching on code implementation, design review, and other software engineering and Agile practices. Understand how the team uses Angular and Typescript frameworks and be comfortable explaining relevant details to other engineers. Collaborate effectively with product managers to ensure that projects are delivered on time and with quality. Understand the how we structure, build and deploy the apps and be comfortable explaining relevant details to other engineers. Have knowledge of your team’s target customer base and their most common use cases within the application. Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by: Have an understanding of all aspects of our web application, including every module, less common use cases and all the Personas within our user base. Demonstrate end-to-end responsibility for delivering roadmap projects on time, from technical planning to performing/guiding implementation to testing to final delivery. Balance the continuum of trade-offs during code design, knowing that solutions can favor faster delivery with less strict technical requirements or solutions can favor future technical maintainability with delayed delivery of customer value. Identify a technical initiative (e.g. technical debt, introduction of a new system, need for a new JavaScript depen