Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job Overview

Intuit is a global financial platform company with a mission to empower everyone to prosper. Our innovative products, including TurboTax, QuickBooks, CreditKarma, and Mailchimp, use technology to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people worldwide. At Intuit, we believe in living our values every day, with integrity at the core of everything we do. Our mission to power prosperity around the world drives us to design products that help our customers make more money, save time, and make confident financial decisions.

Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx and went public in 1993. Today, with a customer base of over 100 Million, over 10,000 employees, Intuit serves customers worldwide in 19 locations and 9 countries by using our AI-driven expert platform to deliver powerful solutions for our customers’ most important financial problems. And as much as we have re-invented our products and services, we have always stayed true to our core values.

We are proud of our culture that attracts top talent and empowers them to do their best work. Our commitment to creating an inclusive environment where employees can bring their whole selves to work has been recognized as one of the world's best and most innovative places to work year after year.

Intuit is seeking a “Senior Staff” for "Intuit Enterprise Suite - Product Development team (Small Business and Self Employed Group)". We are a start-up within Intuit with the strategy to be an “AI-driven expert platform”. This is about being an open, trusted and easy-to-build-on platform where we and others partners solve the most pressing customer problems and deliver awesome experiences. The ideal candidate will have technical expertise, business acumen, and a passion for creating delightful customer experiences. They will lead cross-functional teams, influence executives and engineers, and drive technical product direction.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing scalable backend software and proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Lead an engineering team (10-35 engineers) that builds and supports amazing customer-facing products providing innovative solutions to challenging programming and design problems
• Collaboration and Leadership: Foster collaboration outside the organization, leading cross-team initiatives and engagements with external partners, clients, or industry groups to drive innovation and mutually beneficial technical advances.
• Deliver significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture.
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and OPEX.
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems
• Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding
• "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently.
• Able to influence, advocate and propose experience and workflow designs while collaborating with Product Managers and Experience Designers
• Implement highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant advanced degree is mandatory
• Technology Architecture and product engineering expertise with a minimum of 12+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments with a proven track record in executing complex projects.
• 5+ years of experience in developing complex, distributed, scalable API-based and event driven systems,
• Practical experience in developing applications using microservices & messaging technologies (REST, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Kafka, Pulsar, ActiveMQ)
• Solid design and coding skills (Node, Java, Spring, Maven/Gradle, REST, GraphQL, JSON, messaging technologies).
• Experience in UI frameworks like React, Backbone, Angular is desirable.
• Strong Leadership presence with Excellent communication skills & experience in C level stakeholder management. Cross functional leader working closely with other architects, business teams, and product teams.
• Expertise in data structures, algorithms, and a strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• Experience with Database design (SQL, NoSQL is preferred). Knowledge of data analytics/BI is a plus.
• Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years along with experience with AI technologies is desirable.
• Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills along with strong mentoring skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.