Software Engineer II - Abacus Team

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. 

The Role 

Software Engineer II - Abacus Team 

Why We Have This Role

Qualtrics is seeking Software Engineers to join our ABACUS team! This team is building the analytical engine that enables advanced statistical capabilities required by our Qualtrics products. 

How You’ll Grow

• Collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to our customers
• Develop scalable, robust, and highly available microservices to perform simple to complex statistical analyses and build/deploy machine learning models
• Develop on the cloud computing infrastructure at Qualtrics and help build, distribute, scale, and optimize these technologies
• Partner with and incorporate feedback from other specialists, tech-ops, and product managers

Things You’ll Do 

• Developing frameworks to perform analysis, particularly with the Python data stack of numpy/pandas/pyarrow, that allow other developers to add new analyses quickly that are performant by default
• Developing APIs for analysis that can perform computations in real time
• Developing infrastructure to perform analyses like cluster analysis, regression models, decision tree models, and other machine learning models
• Scaling the infrastructure and services to help these APIs grow as the platform grows

What We’re Looking For on Your Resume 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (mathematical and/or computational background)
• 2+ years of relevant full-time software experience
• Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with python data processing libraries/frameworks(numpy/pandas/pyarrow)
• Experience with Python
• Familiarity with SQL databases 
• Backend development experience

What You Should Know About This Team 

The ABACUS Platform forms the basis for analytical capabilities in the Qualtrics Platform. This team is passionate about delivering great experiences to our customers through the work they create. 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 our customer’s needs. 

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits 

• Work-life integration is deeply important to us - we have frequent events, team outings, and workshops for development
• We take pride in our office's design, which aims to cultivate creativity, from our rooftop views to an open and collaborative workspace
• On top of the standard benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc) we provide snacks, drinks, and free lunches in our office.

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.

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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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