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 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

 

Software Engineer II - App Framework 

 

Why We Have This Role

We're enabling any developer to leverage the Qualtrics platform as a basis for their own apps, and even extend the platform itself to meet customer needs we never dreamed of. We need talented software engineers to help us overcome the formidable technical challenges in this space and provide a powerful and delightful experience to develop, deploy, manage and use apps.

 

How You’ll Find Success

• Intrinsically motivated to learn and master new skills and technologies.

• Clearly convey technical ideas in written documents and presentations.
• Shift perspectives easily, understanding how developers will perceive and use our tooling and APIs.
• Actively mentor other engineers within the team.
• Consider and propose solutions to solve problems as they arise.

How You’ll Grow

• Own functionality across the full stack: backend services, front-end UIs, middleware, and front-end runtime libraries.
• Coordinate efforts within the team and across teams to improve the experience for developers and their customers.
• Implement new functionality while maintaining high quality and product velocity through incremental refactoring of existing code and rigorous unit tests.
• Hone your craft together with other engineers through design whiteboard sessions and constructive code review.

Things You’ll Do

• Build and deliver scalable, fast, robust, and simple web-based solutions that solve complex business and developer needs.

• Take perspectives of internal and external customers to identify needs and deliver on commitments.

• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance.

• Work closely with other specialists, tech-ops, and product managers, incorporating their feedback into your work.

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years' experience building web infrastructure and distributed systems.

• Confident with standard software engineering methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code review) and tooling (e.g. source control, CI/CD).

• Able to judiciously deploy design patterns to simplify technical solutions to complex business problems.

• Effective and persuasive communication, driving consensus among engineers.

What You Should Know About This Team

We build and maintain the App Framework: a collection of scalable backend services, a shared standard library and dev tooling that enables third-party developers to build and deliver custom applications on top of the Qualtrics XM platform. Developers are our customer base, and we use our own experience and perspective as developers to ensure that building on the XM Platform follows best industry practices and is friendly and ergonomic, from local prototyping to debugging in production.

 

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

• Engineers get a quarterly book/subscription stipend to use on content that will help us grow our knowledge.
• 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

• We have quarterly team-building events to help build more of a connective tissue between team members

• After their first year of employment, full-time employees receive an annual experience bonus, designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.

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.

​​​​​​​Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family & Medical Leave Act, Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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.

Qualtrics Work Experience - As we look to the future, we believe that our teams are better together. Being together will help us learn more, grow faster and ultimately deliver better results for our customers and Qualtrics. Roles tied to an office location work 4 days per week in the office together and 1 day from home, with a strong spirit of flexibility around taking time for personal, health, and family moments in our work weeks. Our managers work with their teams to create a collaborative, engaged work environment, and arrangement that works for each of our team members.

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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. For part-time or intern positions, this pay range is for base pay per hour. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.

Washington State Pay Transparency Range$112,000—$212,000 USD