Staff Software Engineer - PaaS

About the position

Qualtrics is seeking Software Engineers to join our Seattle office to reinvent the next generation Dashboard experience using state of the art technology stack and best engineering practices. Person in this role will provide guidance on design and roadmap/vision of the Dashboard organization within the Reporting Platform. The person on the role will not only work on the front end features that power navigation/layouting of the Dashboard but also work on backend services that power the configurations of the dashboard including the storage systems. As we reinvest the next generation Dashboard, this role will have an outsized impact on the performance and experience of Dashboard usage.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, fast, robust, and rich web-based methods to solve complex business problems using the latest front-end technologies and distributed system concepts
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
• 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
• Work with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting end consumer features
• Architect efficient and reusable front-end 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Computer Science or related
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with single page application technologies such as AngularJS, React, nodejs, Amazon Web Services (S3, dynamodb, documentdb etc)
• Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
• Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
• Experience with software engineering standard methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design document)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment and to learn new frameworks/stacks
• Confirmed ability to understand large systems, drilling down to code level
• Experience in performance engineering of web application

Benefits

• We spend 10% of our time on individual engineering growth activities every quarter
• We participate in personalized Career Action Planning
• Full time employees receive an annual experience bonus after their first year of employment
• Variable allowances for wellness, meals, transportation, and more
• The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader