About Walr
Walr is a data creation company that supports insight professionals globally. It specializes in reaching diverse audience segments, leveraging proprietary technology, and offering bespoke services. With a comprehensive suite of tools, backed by a team of seasoned industry professionals, Walr’s services include efficient data collection methods, intuitive data visualization and reporting techniques, and supportive and transparent advice. Walr exists to unify the complex and fragmented research process by introducing more efficient, rapid, and straightforward methods.As a rapidly growing company and acclaimed recipient of the Best Workplace in Tech™ and Best Workplace in Wellbeing™ titles, we're not just offering a job – we're inviting you to shape our journey. Empowerment and growth define us. Join us in reshaping the future of business.
About The Role:
Walr is looking for a Senior Survey Programmer. This role is ideal for someone who loves to work with accuracy and to train, coach and develop the team while be responsible for the team project delivery. Also, they are expected to act as an ambassador for the business both internally and externally. We need someone with great technical expertise to deal with complex surveys.Key Responsibilities:
- Support our clients in Walr technology products
- Effectively 'package' and manage the information cascade to senior leadership, identifying clear outcome
- Programming online questionnaires based on material provided by clients, this includes survey scripting, quotas, translations and reporting
- Working collaboratively with the Project Manager to deliver the project that meet the client’s needs, on time, and within our quality standards
- Being consultative: proactively suggesting improvements to the survey design, flow and where appropriate suggesting different options to tackle various challenges
- Delivering good quality work which was tested and checked
- Managing multiple projects at the same time, ensuring all deadlines are met
- Collaborating as a strong team member
- Assisting others when workloads require
- Train and help junior team members
Desired Experience:
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience using a survey programming platform: Decipher (preferred), Confirmit, or any other platform
- Good technical skills using one (or more) survey platform
- Good Web Development skills (JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, HTML)
- Very good English language communication skills - both verbal and written
- Open to work on any new survey platform
- Open to share experience and train other team members in the team
- Any server-side language /technology would be a plus
Desired Skills & Attributes:
- Consultative attitude
- Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple projects
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to commit to occasional extended work hours when required to reach goals
- Attention to detail: Dedication to precision and pride in applying a meticulous approach to coding and documentation
- Continuous learner: Eager to learn new technologies and frameworks
- Team player attitude: We work as a team, and expect this candidate to demonstrate deep technical knowledge balanced by high emotional intelligence, enabling him/her to compromise when needed, motivate others and accept and learn from feedback
- Problem solver by nature: Ability to identify and anticipate issues, quickly adapting to solution
- Strong communication skills: Business level English comprehension and ability to communicate clearly, in writing and orally, with any teammate or key stakeholder regardless of technical background
- Education to Degree level in Computer Science or a related field.
Additional Information:
At Walr, we understand the importance of tailoring benefits to meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce spread across the globe. With a commitment to offering region-specific benefits while fostering a shared sense of community, we're excited to present some of the key benefits that unite us as a global team.
- 30 Days Annual Leave
- Remote First Culture
- Family Friendly Policies
- Health & Wellbeing Benefits
- Star of The Quarter Award
- Work from Anywhere for up to 8 weeks a year.
- Full Tech Set-Up
- Quarterly Lunch & Learns
What We Value:
- We Delight through Dedication: We go above and beyond for our clients, committed to delivering best in class service. We choose consistently to act in the best interests of our clients – with integrity, honesty and fairness – to delight through dedication.
- We Lead with Trust: We approach our work with a data driven mindset, balanced by an acknowledgement that we are all human, first. As our company continues to grow, we don’t lose sight of what’s most important — our people. We default to open, choose respect, and show comfort with candor knowing that doing so fosters an environment where people can be their best selves.
- We Revel in Innovation: We aren’t afraid to take informed risks, learn from mistakes and act with purpose to build the future. Through continual innovation, we deliver new solutions for our clients and elevate expectations — both within our business and throughout our industry.
- We Celebrate as A Team: Walr is a globally distributed team that equally emphasizes individual accountability and collective success. We take the time to value others’ contributions and invest in growth by prioritizing Learning & Development and celebrating milestones during Monthly Group Meetings. Prioritizing inclusivity and leaving egos behind, we see that the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
- We Are Empowered to Act Like Owners: Regardless of background, tenure or title, all employees are empowered to be ambitious, act courageously and be accountable for their actions, in pursuit of the future of Walr.
