Senior Software Engineer - Collect Platform
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional 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 mic 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 - Collect Platform
Why We Have This Role
The Collect Platform engineering team is what drives Qualtrics XM Platform. You will be building leading edge technologies that will enable our customers to collect the data they need across the 4 key XM funnels.
How You’ll Find Success
- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
- Strong ownership and all-in spirit
- Ability to create trust in customers and teams through thorough communication
- 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 analytical mindset to approach problems and find solutions
- Shows desire to learn new skills and grow in the role
How You’ll Grow
- Develop the ability to build scalable, fast, and robust customer and platform solutions
- Develop familiarity with containerization and full-stack development
- Evolve functional requirements into technical requirements that work for all Product use cases
- Benefit from working with other engineers, product managers, UX, and more
- Master 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 business problems
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive optimal performance and adoption
- Develop a mix of backend services and delightful front-end UIs with an API first mentality
- Maintain systems in production, resolve customer issues, and participate in team on-call rotation
- Contribute to team meetings, attend project review and operation review meetings, design enhancements and new features, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers
- Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineers and product managers
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
- Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
- Experience with continuous delivery, git, test automation and build/deploy systems
- Experience building large-scale web applications or distributed services
- Experience building high performance RESTful services
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 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 the Collect Platform. The Collect Platform organization works to provide a world-class survey building and survey taking experience. We are the heart of data collection for all Qualtrics customers. Collect Platform also supports our partners and customers as they build business-critical solutions and extensions on top of the survey platform. Our engineers work collaboratively to solve difficult problems and expand their technical expertise. This uniquely direct customer impact is exceptionally fulfilling and creates an amazing opportunity for rapid learning and career progression.
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.
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. 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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