Software Engineer - Backend at SurveyMonkey in Remote

Who we are and what we do

SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK), is a leader in agile software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback. Our mission is to power the curious and enable organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500, to transform feedback into action. Our brand is beloved and well known throughout the world—over 6 billion people have taken a SurveyMonkey survey! Today, more than 17 million active users rely on our platform to measure and understand feedback from employees, customers, website and app users, and the market. And our enterprise-grade products and solutions help 335,000+ organizations globally to solve daily challenges—from delivering better customer experiences to increasing employee retention.

More about our Partners & Integrations Team

We are all about developers - no really! We are the public face for external developers for SurveyMonkey by the Developer Platform We also build the high traffic, high availability Public APIs for SurveyMonkey /api/v3/). On top of that, we also have the charter to build and expand upon the in-house built Apps and our several hundreds of 3rd party Apps ecosystem (). We work with a diverse set of technologies, frameworks and programming languages. We have both the scope and depth of engineering challenges to solve. We're also starting the process of re-envisioning what the future of Developer Platform, Public APIs and Apps looks like for the next few years - which is where you fit in!

What we're looking for

We are looking for someone who has a passion for solving new and interesting problems. We welcome new ideas and fresh perspectives that you bring with yourself which can help grow our team, and our platform both internally and with our customers. Your contributions will be extremely important to the success of the team through your technical work, experience and leadership. You will help build the platform for high impact strategic integrations and solutions that provide high value to our customers. You will report to our Engineering Manager for Partners & Integrations. This is a remote-friendly position.

You will

• Work with product managers to expand the scope of our Notifications Platform
• Work with vendors (i.e. Sparkpost, Twilio) to ensure continued deliverability of emails and notifications
• Design, operate, and scale essential email and notification services
• Build new features to support our customers and internal clients, including creating tech specs, writing code, and keeping tabs on post-release metrics
• Investigate and address issues with performance, scalability, and maintainability

You have

• 5+ years experience in web application development focused on the backend
• Experience working with Python
• Experience with distributed systems and backend service development
• Experience writing efficient SQL queries, and designing schemas for relational databases
• Experience working with vendors, e.g. Sparkpost and Twilio
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent in relevant work experience