Senior Software Engineer (BackEnd) - Content Engineering

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-assisted technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers right 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

Our new Content Engineering team is looking for Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about solving complex, challenging problems and can work with their team in Costa Rica and other peers across North America. We manage the technology powering our website, content creation & localization tools for multiple products, and we work with cross-functional partners to grow our business and expand our international presence.

If you have a proven track record in backend technologies and a passion for supporting platforms and building large-scale sites, we invite you to be a key collaborator in shaping the future of our backend stack.

What you’ll be working on

• Help grow SurveyMonkey by optimizing our SEO and international presence, improving the content authoring and management experience along with localization tools, and expanding our design system
• Contribute to technical specs, write readable code, monitor post-release metrics, and present technology demos
• Work with product owners on feature sets that impact platforms, services, and frameworks
• Participate in cross-team technical initiatives and own the technical aspects of software architecture and development
• Develop and support modular packages, components, and frameworks
• Write robust and testable code, define APIs, improve automation coverage, troubleshoot issues, and perform code reviews

We’d love to hear from people with

• 6+ years of professional experience shipping production-quality code
• Familiarity with one major backend language and corresponding frameworks such as PHP/Laravel, Python/Pyramid, etc. If you are open to learning, we want to hear from you too!
• Good understanding of web standards, cross-browser compatibility, backend packages, and frameworks
• Experience with performance enhancement methodologies
• Passion for promoting best practices and engineering standards to the team, adopting new technologies, and mentoring junior developers
• Strong interest in doing code reviews, writing tech specs, collaborating within and across teams, and troubleshooting issues
• Ability to communicate written and orally in English at the B2+ level

Please apply using an English version of your resume/CV.

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.