Senior Software Engineer - Collect Platform
The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action that helps businesses to attract customers who stay longer and buy more, to engage and empower employees to do the best work of their lives, to develop breakthrough products people love, and to build a brand people can’t imagine living without.
Joining Qualtrics means becoming part of a team bold enough to chase breakthrough experiences - like building a technology that will be a force for good. A team committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because of a conviction that every voice holds value, with a vision for representation that matches the world around us and inclusion that far exceeds it. You could belong to a team whose values center on transparency, being all in, having customer obsession, acting as one team, and operating with scrappiness. All so you can do the best work of your career.
We believe every interaction is an opportunity. Are we yours?
The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action that helps businesses to attract customers who stay longer and buy more, to engage and empower employees to do the best work of their lives, to develop breakthrough products people love, and to build a brand people can’t imagine living without.
Joining Qualtrics means becoming part of a team bold enough to chase breakthrough experiences - like building a technology that will be a force for good. A team committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because of a conviction that every voice holds value, with a vision for representation that matches the world around us and inclusion that far exceeds it. You could belong to a team whose values center on transparency, being all in, having customer obsession, acting as one team, and operating with scrappiness. All so you can do the best work of your career.
We believe every interaction is an opportunity. Are we yours?
About the Team
The Collect Platform engineering team is what drives Qualtrics XM Platform. You will be building leading edge technologies that enable our customers to collect the data that powers all Qualtrics product lines.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will apply your distributed systems knowledge, familiarity with frontend development, databases, various storage engines, and web service design and implementation to build extraordinary software and services. Each team has the freedom to choose the stack they use for each project, allowing engineers to experiment and learn new and exciting technologies. Primarily, our projects currently use React, Golang, Node.JS, Typescript / Javascript, Java, and both SQL and NoSQL databases, all running on AWS.
Success includes authoring simple solutions to solve hard customer problems and crafting systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth. You will also own the quality of your product from end to end, which is an inspiring challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work!
Day in the Life
- Develop scalable, fast, and robust web-based solutions to tackle complex business problems
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
- Work collaboratively with team members on full-stack systems that you and your team owns end-to-end
- Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other specialists, tech-ops, UX designers, and product managers. Drive clarity in business and technical requirements and evolve them into technical designs
- Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers
- Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge as well as the engineering best practices on your team
- Have technical impact (including Quality) that spans an Engineering organization’s technology portfolio across multiple teams or depth of impact that significantly advances mission-critical systems
Experience required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5-7 years of meaningful engineering experience
- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
- Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
- Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
- Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
- Experience with software engineering standard methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, authoring design documents)
What differentiates us from other companies
- Work life integration is deeply important to us - we have frequent office events, team outings, and happy hours.
- We take pride in our office designs aimed at cultivating creativity, from our rooftop views to open and collaborative work spaces with catered lunches and other on-site amenities.
- On top of a standard benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc), we also have creative additional benefits like our Experience Bonus and Wellness Reimbursements.
- We believe in sharing Qualtrics success, so equity is an important part of the compensation for all employees.
- To learn more about what we value, read about it directly from our employees Qualtrics Life stories
- Qualtrics prioritizes your personal growth and learning through dedicated time, resources, and forums
- Qualtrics encourages you to bring your entire self to work. We are proud of the culture that has developed at Qualtrics, our community is supported by a mix of Q Groups, Corporate Social Responsibility groups, and other social groups.