Software Engineer II - XM Discover, 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 Challenge:

As a Software Engineer on the XM Discover Platform scrum development team, you will be collaborating with other progressive engineers to bring our software to the next levels of scalability, performance, security, and functionality. This stack processes very large amounts of data using a variety of open-source technologies such as Java, Elastic, Kafka, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Jenkins, Ansible, and others. In this role there is lots of opportunity for growth - you will start with responsibility for both story-level and epic-level work, and broaden out from there.  As with all of our engineering roles, you will have influence on design and implementation and will be able to both mentor and be mentored.

We are a scrum shop and happy to teach and mentor if you don’t have previous scrum experience.  If you do have scrum experience, then you’ll be happy to know that we do full scrum, complete with sprint planning, review, retrospectives, daily scrums, backlog refinement, and planning poker. We also embrace XP development methodologies and put great value on XP development principles.

Expectations for Success:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
• Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
• Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Experience with software engineering standard methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design document)

A Day in the Life:

• Build scalable data processing applications
• 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 specialists, 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 differentiates us from other companies:

• Work life integration is deeply important to us - we have frequent office events, team outings, and happy hours
• Qualtrics Experience Program - $1,500 for an experience of your choosing (eligible after a year)
• We take pride in our office design aiming at fostering creativity from our rooftop views to an open and collaborative work space.
• 30 paid days off - 15 PTO + 5 Personal Days + 10 Holiday Closures (additional after a year)
• On top of standard benefits package (medical employees and their families, dental, vision, life insurance, etc) we provide snacks, drinks, and free lunches in our office
• To learn more about what we value read about it directly from our employees Qualtrics Life stories