Software Developer II - Sales Application Engineering

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.

 

Software Development Engineer II - Sales Application Engineering 

 

Why We Have This Role 

The Internal Development team architects develops, and maintains tools that our coworkers in Sales, Services, and Customer Success use every day. Our tools are critical to onboarding new Qualtrics customers, tracking product usage, viewing license information, and ultimately helping our customers to be successful with the Qualtrics product. We work primarily with Django, React, and MySQL, and all of our services are hosted on AWS. 

 

How You'll Find Success 

• Shown ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues
• Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence
• Ability to retain composure under stressful conditions, communicate effectively with a wide array of individuals at Qualtrics, and get the right things done
• Ability to understand large systems, drilling down to code level

 

How You'll Grow 

• Passionate about building products that help customers easily and effectively get their job done
• Curious and constantly learning on your own and from others
• You get satisfaction from helping others succeed, and you constantly seek ways to improve
• You can identify gaps, propose solutions to important problems, and then take them to resolution

 

Things You’ll Do

• Developing scalable, fast, robust, and simple self-service data analytics solutions to solve complex business problems
• Close collaboration with your team to collect and incorporate feedback into your feature design
• Drive operational excellence by investigating production issues, driving root cause analysis, and follow-up actions for mitigation
• Improve performance, availability, reliability, scale, throughput, and latency
• Work with your team in order to meet the customer work you're doing, understand the decisions that are being made, and make your voice heard

 

What We're Looking For on Your Resume

• BA/BS degree in computer science or related field
• 2-5 years experience in developing and operating highly-available web services
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design, continuous delivery, source-control repositories, test automation, and build/deploy systems)
• Development experience in a high-level language, such as Javascript, PHP, or Python (bonus points for experience with Django and React)
• Database experience (preferably SQL)

 

What You Should Know About This Team

We need entrepreneurial engineers who want to create something new at Qualtrics and who excel at working cross-team and cross-functionally. Our engineers, at every level, participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full stack development and delivery, operations, quality, and optimization. Successful engineers are excited to envision the future of Qualtrics data and anticipate internal and external customer needs that don’t exist yet.

 

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
• Qualtrics pays 100% of the healthcare benefit premiums for employees and their dependents. 
• Full-time employees receive an annual experience bonus after their