Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

About Sprig

Sprig is building the AI-native successor to legacy survey tools, like Qualtrics, Medallia, and SurveyMonkey. We believe the future of experience research won’t be powered by slow, siloed platforms. It will be fast, intelligent, and deeply integrated into how modern teams build great products.

Our mission is to make deep customer understanding effortless and always on. With Sprig, product teams no longer guess. They know. We are creating a future where AI uncovers insights, accelerates workflows, and enables teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences in real-time.

Companies like Notion, Figma, Coinbase, and TripAdvisor already use Sprig to stay closer to their customers than ever before. We’re scaling quickly toward $100M ARR, launching new AI-powered capabilities, and expanding our impact across the world’s most innovative companies.

If you're energized by bold ideas, rapid growth, and the opportunity to redefine an entire category, we'd love to meet you.

About the Role

We’re looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform Team. The Platform Team at Sprig is responsible for the backend architecture and the data ingestion, processing and storage systems, playing a critical role in ensuring our platform's reliability, scalability, and performance. As a Backend Engineer on the Platform Team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain features and the infrastructure that powers our innovative product research solutions.

Ultimately, your work will have a direct impact on the success of our customers by providing reliable, scalable, and insightful research tools, enabling them to build customer-centric products that resonate with their users.

Your Impact

• Enabling customer insights via implementing and optimizing features that power our event-based targeting systems.

• Provide technical leadership on projects, guiding the team through key decisions and ensuring best practices are followed.

• Collaborating with product managers, AI engineers, and product engineers, you will facilitate the integration of backend systems with other components of the platform.

• Staying ahead of the latest technologies and integrating them into our systems will keep Sprig at the cutting edge of product research solutions. Your proactive approach to innovation will ensure our platform remains competitive and capable of meeting future challenges.

• Driving data integrity and security by managing and maintaining databases. This is crucial for maintaining the trust of our clients and ensuring the accuracy of the insights generated by our platform.

• Enhancing platform scalability and performance by designing and developing robust backend systems.

Your Strengths

• 5+ years of software engineer experience with a focus on platform, backend system, data infrastructure, or distributed computing

• Experience with some of the technologies we use, e.g., Redis, Postgres, ScyllaDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, gRPC, REST, WebSocket, and S3

• Experience in AWS and Terraform, or other IAC (Infrastructure as code) solutions

• Write high-quality production code using Node.js , Golang, or an equivalent backend language.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Quick learner, good team player

• Experience with low-latency high-volume data stores and platforms is a big plus.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary

• Competitive Employee Equity

• 401K Program

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits

• FSA/HSA Benefit

• $175/month Commuter Benefit

• Additional Wellbeing Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• Professional Development Stipend

• Hybrid Office Policy

• Lunch and dinner daily

• Company Sponsored Social Events

At Sprig, we pride ourselves on being a people-first company, where your contributions truly matter and are valued. We were recently awarded by Fortune as top 50 best places to work in the US, and top 50 Places to Work in the Bay Area by Built In. Come join our mission of building products users love and have a real impact on Sprig’s future.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We prioritize diversity within our team and value different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Employee Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $260,000 + Equity + Benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all locations (San Francisco, CA; New York, NY). Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your Recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.

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