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 enthusiastic Software Engineers to join our Survey Platform team. You’ll play a key role in developing and maintaining the core backend services that power the heart of SurveyMonkey – how surveys are created, launched, and how responses are gathered and analyzed. This is your chance to work on high-traffic, critical systems that make a real difference for our users.
What you’ll be working on
- Build and Scale: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services across multiple data regions, ensuring reliability and performance.
- Innovate and Develop: Contribute to the development of new features, crafting technical specifications, writing clean and maintainable code, and following best practices for rapid iteration.
- Focus on Performance and Security: Develop with performance, security, and maintainability top of mind to handle the large volume of traffic our services experience.
- Support and Maintain: Provide on-call support as needed to ensure we meet our high service availability targets.
We’d love to hear from people with
- 1-4 years of experience in backend web application development. Recent graduates and early-career professionals are encouraged to apply!
- Proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of SQL databases.
- Familiarity with microservice architecture.
- Exposure to technologies like Kafka, Redis, Memcached, AWS, Helm, and ArgoCD.
- Keen interest and ideally some experience with using AI tools for development, and Prompt Engineering.
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, you will be required to work from a SurveyMonkey office up to 1 day 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.
