Staff Software Engineer - Research Platform

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. 

Staff Software Engineer - Research Platform 

Why We Have This Role

Qualtrics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Research Platform Engineering team in our Seattle office. If you have a Bachelor’s degree, have 8+ 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 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
• 8+ 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 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.

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
• 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.