Senior Software Engineer - Research Methodologies

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 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 - Research Methodologies

Why We Have This Role

As a software engineer at Qualtrics, you will be building systems to help our customers both understand and respond to the experience data provided by their customers or employees. Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work!

Our team owns a suite of full-stack services that implement advanced research methodologies such as panel recruitment and management, product testing including analysis pipelines and models which are used by large institutions to build thriving communities ready to test new product concepts and prototypes. Our mission is to provide the world’s leading self-service research platform by democratizing Qualtrics’ existing tools and methods for collecting input through Qualtrics applications and use cases and making them available to any researcher in any function.

How You’ll Find Success 

• Exhibit a strong level of curiosity, driving personal and technical growth.
• Build trust with customers and teams through effective communication and dependability.
• Take initiative and demonstrate scrappiness in delivering results.
• Collaborate efficiently with cross-functional teams and establish strong partnerships with managers and colleagues.
• Approach problems with an analytical mindset, leveraging data to drive insights and solutions.
• Show commitment to expanding your skill set and advancing in your role.

How You’ll Grow

• Master the ability to design and build scalable, fast, and robust SaaS solutions.
• Achieve proficiency in containerization and full-stack development methodologies.
• Learn to implement innovative functionality from provided requirements and specifications.
• Collaborate with other engineers, tech operations, and product managers to accelerate your development.
• Gain experience in Agile methodologies by engaging in daily stand-ups and prioritizing work to deliver value to our customers efficiently.

Things You’ll Do 

• Design distributed, low-latency services to ingest, process, and aggregate data.
• Build integrations with major SaaS platforms including Slack, Salesforce, and Tableau.
• Create advanced analytics that identify trends and sentiments in free-form text data through natural language processing and machine learning techniques.
• Develop widgets for clear data visualizations in dashboards and reports.
• Architect and deliver innovative full-stack solutions to effectively meet customer needs.

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, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and AWS technologies
• 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
• 4+ 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 market research use cases.
• 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
• $36,882 MXN Experience bonus to be used for an “Experience” of your choosing
• Competitive salary, performance bonuses, generous savings fund match.
• Quarterly Wellness Reimbursement, can be used for activities including gym memberships, spa massages, workout equipment, meditation apps, and much more.
• Amazing QGroup Communities; MOSAIQ, Green Team, Qualtrics Pride, Q&Able, Qualtrics Salute, and Women’s Leadership Development, which exist as places for support, allyship, and advocacy.

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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