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.
Software Engineer II - Discover Studio
Why We Have This Role
At Qualtrics, capturing and making sense of human sentiment at scale is at the heart of what we do. As a Software Engineer on the XM Discover Studio team, you will build customer-facing applications, designing and crafting rich frontend experiences (and their supporting backends), that will be directly visible to customers. You will partner side-by-side with fellow software engineers, tech-ops, and product managers to solve complex business problems that directly impact how global enterprises listen to and act on customer signals. If you want to build robust customer-facing software using modern open-source technologies, this role gives you the ownership and platform to do so.
How You’ll Find Success- Curiosity & Continuous Learning: You bring a natural drive to explore new technologies, dive deep into system behavior, and continuously expand your technical craft.
- Engineering Rigor: You take pride in well-structured code, comprehensive unit testing, thorough code reviews, and sound design documentation.
- Collaborative Problem Solving: You enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners, exchanging candid feedback, and iterating together to find simple solutions to hard problems.
- Bias for Impact & Delivery: You navigate sprint goals with urgency and focus, prioritizing features that deliver measurable value to customers.
- Systems Mindset: You enjoy analyzing algorithms, data structures, and distributed architectures to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance.
- Broadening Technical Scope: Start by taking ownership of story-level and epic-level features, with a clear path to driving broader platform initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Bidirectional Mentorship: Learn directly from seasoned engineers while building your leadership skills by mentoring peers across design and implementation.
- Agile & XP Mastery: Deepen your practical knowledge of full Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement) and Extreme Programming (XP) practices.
- Deliver Customer-Facing Features: Design and ship simple, robust web-based solutions from concept to deployment, translating complex product requirements into clean engineering implementations.
- Champion Software Quality: Ensure resilience and maintainability by writing automated unit tests, leading code reviews, and creating clear technical design specifications.
- Foster Agile Excellence: Actively participate in daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and planning poker, collaborating with teammates to unblock tasks and meet delivery commitments.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with product managers, tech-ops, and fellow engineers to turn real-world user feedback into immediate system improvements.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying scalable web services and UI
- Hands-on proficiency with modern software stacks and data technologies (such as React, NodeJS, Java, Spring, Kafka, Elasticsearch, relational/NoSQL databases, and container platforms like Docker/Kubernetes)
- Strong computer science fundamentals, specifically in data structures, algorithms, and modular software design patterns
- Proven track record of applying engineering best practices, including continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), test automation, and structured design documentation
- History of delivering impact in an agile/Scrum or XP team environment
- We are an experienced, high-performing team supporting multiple web services and UIs, with disparate technology stacks as we transition off of legacy systems. If you are a self-starter, and someone who is rarely satisfied with maintaining the status quo, you will thrive.
- We spend 10% of our time on individual engineering growth activities every quarter
- We participate in personalized Career Action Planning. You will work with your manager to design a plan based on your life experiences, values, and career aspirations (inside and outside Qualtrics) that helps you achieve your career goals at Qualtrics
- Variable allowances for wellness, meals, transportation, and more.
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. #hybrid
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.
Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave Act,Equal Opportunity Employment,Employee Polygraph Protection Act
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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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, and mental health benefits. For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- 3-5 years of relevant software engineering experience
- Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable web services and user interfaces
- Proficiency with modern software stacks and data technologies, including React, Node.js, Java, Spring, Kafka, Elasticsearch, relational or NoSQL databases, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and modular software design patterns
- Experience applying engineering best practices, including CI/CD, test automation, and structured technical design documentation
- Experience delivering software in an Agile/Scrum or Extreme Programming team environment
- Curiosity and willingness to learn
What the Team is Saying
Qualtrics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered strong, with PPO and high‑deductible plan options and the company paying 85% of U.S. medical premiums. Dental, vision, telemedicine, and HSA support round out the core package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are highlighted by a 401(k) with a 5% company match and immediate vesting. Employees also point to useful plan options alongside other financial protections.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs stand out through a $1,200 annual wellness stipend and no‑cost mental‑health support, plus five wellness days and unlimited sick time in the U.S. Additional lifestyle perks include an annual $1,800 Experience Bonus and up to 10 work‑from‑anywhere days.
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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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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
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.
