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Senior Software Engineer - Research Hub Team

Why We Have This Role

Qualtrics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Research Hub Engineering team in our Seattle office. If you have a Bachelor’s degree, have 5+ years of software engineering experience, and want to work at a fast-growing tech company, Qualtrics could be the place you’ve been dreaming about.

How You’ll Find Success 

• Ability to create trust in customers and teams through thorough communication
• Strong level of curiosity
• Takes initiative and shows scrappiness in getting things done
• Proven ability to work well in teams - partnering with managers, cross-functional teams, and teammates
• Takes an analytical mindset to approach problems and find solutions
• Shows a desire to learn new skills and grow in the role

How You’ll Grow 

• Develop the ability to build scalable, fast, robust, and simple SaaS solutions.
• Develop familiarity with containerization and full-stack development.
• Learn to implement new functionality from provided requirements and specifications.
• Benefit from working with other engineers, tech-ops, and product managers
• Learn Agile methodologies by attending daily stand-up meetings, prioritizing tasks, and working with a sense of urgency to meet a scheduled plan to deliver value to our customers
• Opportunities to mentor and lead teammates

Things You’ll Do

• Develop scalable, fast, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance.
• Work closely with and incorporate feedback from other engineers, tech-ops, and product managers.
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers.

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

• Has worked with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes, and transform them into exciting end-user features
• Has developed scalable, fast, robust, and rich web-based solutions to solve complex business problems, using the latest frontend and backend technologies
• Experience working in a full-stack team, building advanced React frontend applications, large-scale backends and maintaining a database
• Experience working in NodeJS and Python
• Experience with Machine learning is a plus
• Experience operating, deploying and maintaining both MySQL and MongoDB
• Experience with continuous delivery, git, test automation, and build/deploy systems
• Strong algorithms, data structures, and coding background
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years working in a full-stack web engineering position

What You Should Know About This Team 

We are a group of talented and passionate engineers who are working on developing new products within the Qualtrics platform that enable advanced research use cases. Our team, Research Hub, was built to help research teams scale their impact; by helping researchers easily find, share, and reuse past research findings, Research Hub can increase the ROI of each study they do. Researchers will eventually be able to use Research Hub to conduct meta-analyses and accretive research with ease, allowing them to connect individual research studies to create new insights. 

Our engineers collaborate closely with platform teams to ensure our products are tightly integrated and consistent with core platform behavior, while having the flexibility to choose our own architecture and the independence to quickly deliver on our business vision. The team’s broad suite of product ownership and true mandate for full-stack development offers an amazing opportunity to drive your career development and build a strong foundational understanding across Qualtrics systems.

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

• 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
• Qualtrics pays 100% of the healthcare benefit premiums for employees and their dependents. 
• Full time employees receive an annual experience bonus after their first year of employment. Qualtrics Experience Bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
• Variable allowances for wellness, meals, transportation, and more. 

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.

Qualtrics Work Experience - As we look to the future, we believe that our teams are better together. Being together will help us learn more, grow faster and ultimately deliver better results for our customers and Qualtrics. Roles tied to an office location work 4 days per week in the office together and 1 day from home, with a strong spirit of flexibility around taking time for personal, health, and family moments in our work weeks. Our managers work with their teams to create a collaborative, engaged work environment, and arrangement that works for each of our team members.

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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered 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, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.