# Software Engineer II - Discover Studio

**Company**: Qualtrics
**Location**: Reston, Virginia
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

As a Software Engineer on the XM Discover Studio team, you will build customer-facing applications, designing and crafting rich frontend experiences (and their supporting backends), that will be directly visible to customers. You will partner side-by-side with fellow software engineers, tech-ops, and product managers to solve complex business problems that directly impact how global enterprises listen to and act on customer signals.

## How You’ll Find Success

- Curiosity & Continuous Learning: You bring a natural drive to explore new technologies, dive deep into system behavior, and continuously expand your technical craft.

- Engineering Rigor: You take pride in well-structured code, comprehensive unit testing, thorough code reviews, and sound design documentation.

- Collaborative Problem Solving: You enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners, exchanging candid feedback, and iterating together to find simple solutions to hard problems.

- Bias for Impact & Delivery: You navigate sprint goals with urgency and focus, prioritizing features that deliver measurable value to customers.

- Systems Mindset: You enjoy analyzing algorithms, data structures, and distributed architectures to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance.

## How You’ll Grow

- Broadening Technical Scope: Start by taking ownership of story-level and epic-level features, with a clear path to driving broader platform initiatives and architectural decisions.

- Bidirectional Mentorship: Learn directly from seasoned engineers while building your leadership skills by mentoring peers across design and implementation.

- Agile & XP Mastery: Deepen your practical knowledge of full Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement) and Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

## Things You’ll Do

- Deliver Customer-Facing Features: Design and ship simple, robust web-based solutions from concept to deployment, translating complex product requirements into clean engineering implementations.

- Champion Software Quality: Ensure resilience and maintainability by writing automated unit tests, leading code reviews, and creating clear technical design specifications.

- Foster Agile Excellence: Actively participate in daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and planning poker, collaborating with teammates to unblock tasks and meet delivery commitments.

- Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with product managers, tech-ops, and fellow engineers to turn real-world user feedback into immediate system improvements.

## What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

- 3-5 years of relevant experience

- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn

- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying scalable web services and UI

- Hands-on proficiency with modern software stacks and data technologies (such as React, NodeJS, Java, Spring, Kafka, Elasticsearch, relational/NoSQL databases, and container platforms like Docker/Kubernetes)

- Strong computer science fundamentals, specifically in data structures, algorithms, and modular software design patterns

- Proven track record of applying engineering best practices, including continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), test automation, and structured design documentation

- History of delivering impact in an agile/Scrum or XP team environment

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## Skills

### Required
- React
- NodeJS
- Java
- Spring
- Kafka
- Elasticsearch
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Computer Science
- Agile
- Scrum
- XP

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