Senior Software Engineer - XM Directory

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 microphone 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 - XM Directory Team 

Why We Have This Role

Qualtrics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our XM Directory (XMD) Engineering team in our Seattle office. You should love building simple solutions to solve hard customer problems. Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth. 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 rich web-based interfaces to solve complex business problems using the latest technologies
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from product managers, design, and other XMD teams
• Have significant experience working with on high-volume backend services and familiarity with frontend development
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers
• Drive clarity in business and technical requirements and evolve them into technical designs
• Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web applications
• Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge as well as the engineering best practices on your team
• Have technical impact (including Quality) that spans an Engineering organization’s technology portfolio across multiple teams or depth of impact that significantly advances mission-critical systems

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
• Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
• 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 engineering position

What You Should Know About This Team 

Qualtrics XM is the backbone of the world’s most successful companies. Our secure, agile, easy-to-use platform is a common framework for entire companies to design and improve customer and employee experiences - and to consistently drive innovation in a world where people demand ever more from products, brands, and experiences. A key part of the XM Platform is the ability to “Listen & Remember” the stakeholders. XM Directory helps our customers to know every stakeholder so you can deliver hyper-personalized experiences. When someone says something about your company you can capture it and store it in the XM Directory. Over time, you’ll build up detailed profiles of your customers, employees, and any other stakeholder to know exactly what they like, need, and how every interaction with your company made them feel.

XM Directory engineering team builds highly performant scalable solutions varying from data storage systems to computation and serving solutions. We utilize a plethora of open source and industry accepted technologies for our big data problems such as ElasticSearch, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Redis, etc. Our human interface is built using the latest Angular framework with TypeScript language. As a Senior Engineer in the XMD team, you will be applying your distributed systems knowledge, familiarity with frontend development, databases, and leading edge ML algorithms to create world class software.

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. 

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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