Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, Foundation - Reston bei Qualtrics
Qualtrics · Reston, Virginia, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Optionales Büro in Reston, Virginia
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.
Why We Have This Role
How You’ll Find Success
- You will take ownership of features and coordinate contributors (cross-teams and functions) to ensure development and delivery. Your day-to-day work will involve driving operational excellence, quality improvements, and mentoring junior engineers.
- Designing scalable and maintainable software solutions that drive business impact by providing foundational text analytics services.
- Set the technical direction for the engineering team that owns data classification space and proactively identifying areas for technical innovations.
- Delivering high-quality code while balancing speed and reliability will be key to your impact.
- Proactively review coding, testing standards of team and designs of cross team features
How You’ll Grow
- You will expand your leadership capabilities by owning complex projects and influencing architectural decisions.
- Active collaboration with product owners, principle engineers to strategically align the road map with the team's technical vision and organization north star.
- Continuous learning through challenging technical problems, peer feedback, and participating in code reviews will sharpen your craft.
- Opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to strategic planning will accelerate your career progression.
Things You’ll Do
- Set the technical direction for the team, driving the overall architecture and design of the platform
- Review and provide feedback on the work of other engineers, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code
- Develop innovative backend services and APIs to extend our text analytics platform
- Teach and mentor other engineers, helping them grow their skills and expertise
- Drive new innovation by working closely with Machine Learning and Applied Science engineering teams to leverage state-of-the-art in ML and LLMs
- Participate in scrum meetings, design+architecture sessions, collaborate with engineers, product, and quality to prioritize and ship features and improvements
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- 8+ years of relevant experience, deeply technical
- Proven track record of leading technical initiatives and setting direction for engineering teams
- Strong background in systems architecture, ability to create high level designs
- Extensive backend development experience in one or more languages like TypeScript, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Go, Python, C#
- Practical experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing, analytics
- Familiarity with different database technologies
- Architecting systems that operate on large quantities of data
- Experience with professional software engineering practices (e.g., unit testing, code reviews, design documents)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or suitable industry experience
- Experience with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch for data indexing, search, and analytics
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and best practices
- Contributions to open-source projects or a portfolio of personal projects
What You Should Know About This Team
- This team is responsible for analyzing and finding insights from omni channel text.
- Our work is core to Qualtrics' mission to improve the human experience, and we have a great balance of greenfields and brownfields to explore.
- We are looking for an engineer who also has a passion for details and who works well with others across disciplines, and can empathize with customers and understand their business needs in the experience domain.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Qualtrics Annual Experience Bonus ($1,800) can be used for an experience of your choosing: concerts, vacation, event tickets, etc.
- Global Wellness Benefit ($1,200) reimburses employees to stay on top of their health and wellness
- Quarterly team offsite team building events
- Great standard benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k, etc.)
- Snacks, drinks, and free lunches in our office