Senior Software Engineer I (backend)

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.

Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be part of our Integrations & Connect engineering team in India. We are looking for a talented and experienced engineer who has a passion for solving challenging technical problems. We work closely with our product owners and our customers, iterating quickly to ensure we build the best solution for our users.  We welcome new ideas and fresh perspectives which can help grow our team and our product. We are looking for someone who has a passion for solving complex and interesting problems and delivering versatile full-stack functionality to support our next set of integrations to drive customer adoption and make the experience more meaningful for our customers.

What you’ll be working on

• Building and maintaining our enterprise integration services / capabilities across multiple data-regions
• Top-to-bottom ownership of new features, including crafting technical specs, writing readable and extendible code, and keeping tabs on post-release metrics
• Building observable systems that track important metrics and automatically notifies when something is off
• Participating in code reviews to validate best practices and logical designs
• Investigating and addressing issues with performance, scalability, and maintainability on both production and development environments
• Mentoring and guiding engineers on best practices 

We’d love to hear from people with

• 5 to 8+ years of experience with backend web application development and integrations
• Experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid
• Expertise in designing and building world-class services and APIs
• Able to write efficient SQL queries and design schemas for relational databases (MSSQL or MySQL experience is a plus)
• Culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Ability to work on in agile environments with frequent deployments
• Practices automated testing, believes and enforces good code quality and best engineering practices
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both co-located and remote engineers and cross-functional partners

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, this opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week.
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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.