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The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain backend services for the Core Enrichments team, enhancing data pipelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve performance and reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Senior Software Engineer - Core Enrichment Team
Why We Have This Role
Our Core Enrichments team builds and maintains critical data services that transform raw data into valuable insights used company-wide. We need a Senior Software Engineer to own and improve high-scale backend systems written in Go, Python, Java, and Scala. This person will work closely with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to design robust, reliable, and performant services that directly impact millions of users. If you like solving complex problems with data processing pipelines and distributed systems, this role puts you at the heart of building our data future.
How You’ll Find Success
- You take full ownership of complex systems from design to deployment, delivering reliable, scalable solutions.
- You write clean, well-tested code and champion quality across the team.
- You mentor others and actively share your knowledge to level up peers.
- You navigate trade-offs pragmatically, balancing velocity with maintainability.
- You communicate clearly and influence product and tech decisions with transparency.
- You spot technical risks early and propose solutions before issues arise.
- You thrive working across multiple languages and frameworks, adapting your skills to get the job done.
How You’ll Grow
- Gain experience leading large, distributed services used in production at scale.
- Deepen your expertise in multi-language codebases (Go, Python, Java, Scala) across diverse data systems.
- Develop leadership skills by mentoring engineers and influencing cross-team architectures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (data science, product) to shape product roadmaps.
- Expand your impact by driving reliability, automation, and operational excellence initiatives.
Things You’ll Do
- Own the design and end-to-end delivery of key data enrichment services that process millions of data events daily.
- Improve system architecture to enhance reliability, scalability, and performance of data pipelines.
- Mentor and guide team members through reviews, knowledge sharing, and pairing sessions to promote best practices.
- Collaborate with product and operations teams to identify and mitigate technical risks early.
- Drive improvements in testing, monitoring, CI/CD, and automation to reduce operational friction.
- Influence technical roadmap decisions and contribute to cross-team initiatives that enhance platform capabilities.
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- Demonstrated success owning and delivering complex backend services in a production environment.
- Strong software development skills with production experience
- Proven ability to design scalable, low-latency, distributed data processing systems.
- Experience mentoring others and influencing engineering practices and decisions.
- Track record of identifying and reducing technical debt and operational risk.
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
What You Should Know About This Team
- We build core enrichment services integral to company-wide data products impacting millions of users.
- Our culture values ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning across multiple programming languages and technologies.
- We prioritize engineering excellence—high quality, observability, and automation are in our DNA.
- The team is cross-functional, closely partnering with data science, product, and infrastructure teams.
- We support your growth through mentorship, technical leadership opportunities, and a growth mindset.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
- Private Medical Insurance - Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
- Commuter Assistance - Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
- Savings Plan - Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO)
- QED PROGRAM - Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
- Wellness - Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Forma.
- A choice of Multispot cards available.
- Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
- Experience bonus - 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
- Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
- Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
- Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office
- Tax-deductible expenses (up to 75% depending on role)
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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The Company
What We Do
Qualtrics is trusted by thousands of the world’s best organizations to power exceptional customer and employee experiences that build deep human connections, increase customer loyalty, boost employee engagement, and drive business success. Our advanced AI and specialized Experience Agents™ allow businesses and governments to proactively interact with customers and employees in personalized ways across every channel and touchpoint, respond in-the-moment to fix or improve experiences, and stay across the latest market trends and opportunities.
Our vision, as an organization, is to improve the human experience.
Why Work With Us
We're a place where strategic risks are encouraged & complex problems get solved together. Where nimble teams are empowered to set aggressive goals & move fast to win. A place that makes you feel safe as your authentic self. Where everyday work results in growth. And, most importantly, where what you do matters. That's why we work at Qualtrics.
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Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader.
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