Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview

Imagine a career where your creative inspiration can fuel BIG innovation. Year-over-year, Intuit has been recognized as a best employer and is consistently ranked on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and Fortune World’s “Most Admired Software Companies” lists. Immerse yourself in our award-winning culture while creating breakthrough solutions that simplify the lives of consumers and small businesses and their customers worldwide.

Intuit is expanding its mobile and global footprint with a full suite of products and services that are revolutionizing the industry. Utilizing design for delight and lean startup methodologies, our entrepreneurial employees have brought more than 250 innovations to market – from QuickBooks®, and TurboTax®, to Mailchimp, Credit Karma, big data, cloud (SaaS, PaaS) and mobile apps. The breadth and depth of these customer-driven innovations mean limitless opportunities for you to turn your ingenious ideas into reality at Intuit.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across a number of interdependent engineering teams, working closely with product management and design.  Drive complex initiatives that span across multiple organizations.  Contribute to Intuit-wide architecture decisions.
• Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems.  Ensure key non-functional requirements are met (including security, availability, performance, scale, quality, etc.)
• Influence the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems.  Drive system and platform thinking within development teams.
• Research, evaluate, and implement state-of-the-art technology (including open source, third party, etc.).
• Communicate architectural and design options, educating development teams, business users, and senior leadership. 
• Coach and mentor other engineers in process, strategy and business alignment.
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements .
• Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning.

• Balance long vs short - think strategically. Have a bias towards working code and experimentation mindset. Encourage an experimentation mindset with POCs. 
• Drive strategic architecture planning to evolve technology stacks for developer velocity improvement and incremental customer values.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience. Design/architecture experience preferred.

• 12+ years’ experience designing and leading design for web, software or mobile applications.

• Boundaryless leadership experience: Applying the nuances of influencing based on the situation, knowing when to push and when to ease, driving through designs, ideas, and roadmaps.  

• Deep understanding of design principles, architecture best practices.

• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to present to all levels of leadership, including executives.
• Expertise with modern technology stacks, microservices, public cloud and programming languages: iOS and Android development using Swift and Kotlin, Graphql, REST, JavaScript, CSS, React, Java, serverless technologies, distributed systems, SDLC/MDLC, data taxonomy and persistence technologies, security, DevOps, open source.
• Demonstrate the ability to influence the direction and tech strategy that drives the significant improvement in technology stack and generate customer/business values
• Expertise at web UI technology, foundational web UI framework with strong knowledge of mobile native or vice versa. 
• Operation, engineering excellence: UI automation framework, testing strategy, client performance analysis and solutions to provide fast, highly available, high quality client experiences
• Demonstrate the ability to incorporate industry best practices into the solution design and teach the large teams to adopt the best practices.