Senior Software Engineer I

SurveyMonkey

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Ottawa - Canada

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 07-09-2025
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

SurveyMonkey is the worlds most popular platform for surveys and forms built for businessloved 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 its like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.

Trusted by millionsfrom startups to Fortune 500 companiesSurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions create experiences people love and drive business growth. Discover how at .

What were looking for

We are looking for a motivated Senior Software Engineer I (Backend) to be part of the User team in Canada. The User team is responsible for supporting Authentication & Authorization within the SurveyMonkey product as well as providing backend services for managing user accounts and teams. We are looking for a talented engineer who has a passion for service ownership AuthN AuthZ and is invested in ensuring our users account state is maintained. All while working alongside many other teams to provide customer value in our extensive product portfolio.

What youll be working on

  • Building and maintaining our user and team management services across multiple data-regions
  • Contribute to our core authorization platform which contains centralized business logic around permission management
  • Support and improve our authentication workflows
  • Cross collaboration with many of the other frontend and backend teams who need additional features in the user/team space
  • Write clean maintainable and efficient code
  • Identify and fix bugs as well as optimizing performance issues
  • Participate in code reviews and implement feedback
  • Foster a culture of collaboration testing code reviews and mentorship to help the team reach their full potential

Wed love to hear from people with

  • 5 years of experience in backend application development
  • Experience with Python and web frameworks like Fast API Flask Pyramid
  • Basic knowledge of SQL databases experience with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch a plus
  • Understanding of Restful APIs
  • Familiarity with version control systems (Git preferred)
  • Basic understanding of software design patterns
  • Expertise in designing and building world-class services and APIs
  • Experience with Kubernetes Helm Charts and Terraform a plus
  • Experience with messaging and streaming frameworks like Kafka Apache Spark etc. a plus
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both co-located and remote engineers and cross-functional partners
  • A growth/data mindset in approaching challenges

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Why SurveyMonkey Were glad you asked

At SurveyMonkey curiosity powers everything we do. Were a global company where people from all backgrounds can make an impact build meaningful connections and grow their careers. Our teams work in a flexible hybrid environment with thoughtfully designed offices and programs like theCHOICE Fund to help employees thrive in work and life.

Weve been trusted by organizations for over 25 years and were just getting started. Our milestones include celebrating a quarter-century of curiosity with 25 acts of giving opening new hubs in Costa Rica and India crossing the threshold of 100 billion questions answered and earning recognition as one of the Most Inspiring Workplaces across North America and Asia.

We live our company valueslike championing inclusion and making it happenby embedding them into how we hire collaborate and grow. They help shape everything from our culture to our business decisions. Come join us and see where your curiosity can take you.

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.


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