Senior Software Engineer II - Full Stack

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 an experienced Senior Software Engineer II who is passionate about solving new and interesting technical challenges and brings fresh perspectives to help grow our team and platform, both internally and for our customers. In this role, you’ll contribute your technical expertise and experience to building scalable solutions while helping drive engineering excellence across the team. You’ll take ownership of meaningful technical initiatives, influence engineering direction, and provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers. This is an opportunity to continue expanding your technical expertise while making a meaningful impact on the evolution of our platform.

What you’ll be working on

• Design, build, and maintain scalable services across multiple data regions, supporting the reliability and growth of our platform.

• Develop high-quality front-end and back-end code to deliver robust, scalable web applications.

• Own feature components end-to-end, from contributing to technical specifications through implementation and delivery, following software engineering best practices.

• Build observable systems and establish meaningful metrics to monitor service health, identify opportunities for improvement, and inform product decisions.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement through testing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior and mid-level engineers, helping drive technical direction and engineering excellence across the organization.

We’d love to hear from people with

• 8+ years of professional experience in web application development, with strong full-stack engineering expertise.

• Proven experience designing, contributing to, and delivering large-scale, cross-functional engineering projects.

• Deep expertise in architecting, designing, and building high-performance, scalable services and APIs.

• Experience working with REST and/or GraphQL APIs and integrating with internal and external services.

• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java or Python, along with relevant web frameworks such as Spring Boot, FastAPI, or Flask.

• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.

• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, and driving engineering vision.

• Experience applying a growth and data-driven mindset to technical challenges, using insights and metrics to guide decisions and improvements.

• Demonstrated experience using AI-powered development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot as part of your development workflow. This includes applying these tools to multi-file refactoring, executing technical specifications, and managing context to support effective development.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with integrating AI/LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or building AI-powered features into modern web applications.

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

At SurveyMonkey, curiosity powers everything we do. We’re 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 the CHOICE Fund to help employees thrive in work and life.

We’ve been trusted by organizations for over 25 years, and we’re 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 values—like championing inclusion and making it happen—by 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.

Your data

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