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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 microphone 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.

Staff Software Engineer - Enrichments EMEA Team

Why We Have This Role

Our Enrichments EMEA teams creates and manages critical data services that transform raw inputs into enriched, actionable data powering key business functions and provide customer data observability. We seek a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems across Go, Python, Java, and Scala services. This person will drive technical vision, influence multiple teams, and solve complex problems impacting platform architecture and business outcomes. If you get energized by driving technical strategy and mentoring others while working hands-on, this role offers you that opportunity.

How You’ll Find Success

You proactively lead across teams to define, plan, and deliver ambitious technical initiatives with high business impact.
You provide technical vision and set architectural standards that enable long-term scalability and maintainability.
You mentor senior engineers, empowering them to grow their careers and take ownership of critical systems.
You communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including engineering leadership and product partners.
You identify systemic issues and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
You balance short-term deliverables with strategic thinking about technical debt and platform evolution.
You collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries to align engineering efforts with company goals.

How You’ll Grow

Expand your leadership scope by influencing multiple teams and shaping company-wide technical direction.
Elevate your impact by architecting complex, large-scale distributed systems with multiple technology stacks.
Hone your skills leading cross-functional collaborations involving engineering, product, and operations.
Deepen expertise in evolving operational excellence initiatives including observability, automation, and incident response.
Grow as a mentor and technical advisor, shaping not only code but also engineering culture and processes.

Things You’ll Do

Drive architecture and design decisions on core enrichment services critical to company data infrastructure.
Lead large, cross-team projects from inception through production, removing blockers and managing dependencies.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influencing technical growth and increasing team effectiveness.
Define technical standards and best practices for multi-language backend development (Go, Python, Java, Scala).
Collaborate with product, data science, and platform teams to align technical delivery with strategic goals.
Identify and mitigate technical debt and operational risks through proactive system improvements and automation.
Influence capacity planning, fault tolerance strategies, and service reliability best practices.

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience
Proven track record delivering large-scale backend systems and driving cross-team engineering efforts.
Expertise in designing and implementing reliable, scalable distributed systems using at least two of Go, Python, Java, Scala.
Demonstrated leadership in setting technical vision and influencing engineering culture beyond your immediate team.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading technical discussions across organizations.
Strong background with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and automation.
History of driving improvements around system reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

What You Should Know About This Team

We own data enrichment pipelines that deliver critical insights used by teams across the company.
Our teams emphasizes technical craftsmanship, collaboration across languages and domains, and continuous improvement.
You’ll join a culture committed to innovation, mentorship, and shared ownership with a strong focus on quality and reliability.
We partner closely with product, infrastructure, and data science teams to solve challenging problems at large scale.
Opportunities to lead initiatives that influence company technical strategy and operational maturity.

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
Private Medical Insurance- Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
Commuter Assistance- Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
Savings Plan- Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO),
QED PROGRAM- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
Wellness- Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Forma,
A choice of Multispot cards available.
Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
Experience bonus- 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office
Tax-deductible expenses (up to 50% depending on role)

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid

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.

Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave Act,Equal Opportunity Employment,Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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.

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