Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview

Come join the Data Security and Use team as a Principal SW Engineer – GenAI Risk Program and Technical Compliance Engineering. The Data Security and Use team is part of CyberCRAFT under our CISO, Atticus Tysen.  Our team is directly accountable for supporting the cybersecurity risk and governance activities of the A2D (Analytics, AI and Data), MSE, GTM Tech, t4i, DevX and the Enabling Business Functions organizations as well as making sure data throughout Intuit is adequately protected and used in accordance with our users expectations and applicable laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the activities of multiple teams throughout Intuit to make sure that: (1) our implementation of GenAI/ML adequately protects our customer and employee information; (2) we anticipate and remediate where our security and fraud/risk systems and controls might be undermined or degraded by our adversaries using GenAL/ML; and (3) 3^rd Parties with whom we share data who implement GenAI/ML follow our legal, ethical and security guidelines.
• Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture
• Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems
• Recommend development best practices for application development
• Recommend and support development tools
• Capture requirements and use cases
• Deliver technical design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality
• Partner with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, solution integration and on-boarding of mobile/SaaS/PaaS/web/desktop offerings
• Work with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, Q/A and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms
• Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning
• Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems and share key learnings
• Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole
• Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
• Coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area
• Direct experience and passion for AI/ML a strong plus
• 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE)
• 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
• Solid design and coding skills (Java, Python, REST, JSON, YAML)
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
• Strong knowledge of and experience with JBoss, Maven and Spring
• Skilled in software development lifecycle processes. Experience with SCRUM, Agile and iterative approaches a plus
• Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to product strategy to high level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation
• Synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs, alternative sources (build / buy / partner) and complex data
• Experience with frameworks like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF a plus
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka and ActiveMQ a plus
• Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain highly desired
• Team/Leadership Qualifications
• Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers and management (including executives)
• "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independentlyTeam player possessing strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Strong mentoring skills. Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment.
• High adaptability and flexibility
• Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships