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Staff Engineer, Platform and API (Mailchimp)
Location(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Brooklyn, New YorkCompany Overview
Intuit is a global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
Mailchimp is a leading marketing platform for small business. We empower millions of customers around the world to build their brands and grow their companies with a suite of marketing automation, multichannel campaign, CRM, and analytics tools.
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to help us build, maintain, and support all of the Mailchimp API offerings, used internally and externally and serving close to one billion requests daily. You can expect to set the team’s technical direction and bring operational focus to projects that directly impact the future of the department, company, and Mailchimp integration developers globally.
The ideal candidate has experience building and operating APIs and large web applications, plus familiarity with current technology trends and patterns. In addition to technical expertise you must also be a skilled communicator and collaborator comfortable working across multiple teams and departments.
Intuit Mailchimp is a hybrid workplace, giving employees the opportunity to collaborate in person with team members in our Atlanta and Brooklyn offices two or more days per week.
Qualifications
- You have extensive experience working within large-scale development environments and building REST APIs to support them
- You have exceptional analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- You have experience with system-level troubleshooting (understanding logs, strace, netstat, top/htop, istat, etc.)
- You have extensive experience scaling large web applications backed by Apache, Nginx, Haproxy, and other tools.
- You have significant coding experience in Bash, Python, PHP, Go, or other languages that can be demonstrated through a portfolio of code.
- You have experience with databases, particularly MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- You’re a thoughtful communicator--our team is distributed, so effective written communication is key.
Experience with or interest in the following areas are pluses, but not required:
- Caching systems (e.g. Memcached)
- Continuous Integration and Deployment (e.g. Jenkins)
- Cloud Providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure …)
- Object-relational mappings (ORM)s
- Data-driven decision-making
- Web accessibility
- Testing patterns
- Containerization
- Linux
- Python
Even if these areas don’t match your experience, you are encouraged to apply if you are excited about the role!
Responsibilities
- You'll establish patterns that help with consistency and engineer effectiveness.
- You'll architect and implement projects consistent with our philosophy and guidelines.
- You'll ensure developmental focus for the company's biggest initiatives.
- You'll understand the operational needs of other departments.
- You'll work collaboratively to solve complex issues.
- You'll provide technical guidance on large-scale projects that may span multiple engineering teams.
- You'll collaborate with, mentor, and train other engineers.
- You'll remain up-to-date on evolving tools and patterns for managing infrastructure, guiding our implementation of them when necessary.
- You'll work with a distributed team to push projects forward by providing feedback on code and architecture decisions.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is NY $165639 - $224099. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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