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Principal Software Engineer

Category Software Engineering Location Mountain View, California Job ID 14598
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as 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

Come join Intuit as a Principal Software Engineer! We're constantly evolving to deliver on our mission to power prosperity around the world. As a Principal Engineer, you'll shape Intuit's long-term technical direction. You'll anticipate problems that need new solutions, lead the conversion of existing systems to AI-native, and drive decisions that span business units. You bring deep software engineering craft alongside strong applied AI experience. Intuit is a global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges.


Responsibilities

  • Anticipate challenges that need fundamentally new solutions and shape Intuit's long-term technical direction

  • Design scalable, resilient, and adaptive systems that unlock innovation, velocity, and value

  • Recognize where AI applies within complex systems and lead the conversion of existing systems to AI-native architectures

  • Make tradeoffs across AI techniques and algorithm choices to ship reliable, production-grade software

  • Identify, champion, and integrate industry-leading or new technologies that create competitive advantage

  • Set engineering standards for quality, security, and maintainability that others adopt

  • Align stakeholders across teams and business units; drive execution and unblock delivery

  • Coach technical leaders; advise senior leadership on team structure and engineering practices


Qualifications

  • 12+ years developing systems and software for large scale business environments

  • 8+ years designing complex distributed systems, platforms, or business applications

  • Hands-on experience integrating AI into production software, ideally driving AI projects standalone with commoditized AI tools and agentic workflows.  

  • Experience modernizing systems toward AI-native patterns; experience driving AI architectural decisions across multiple teams a plus

  • Full-stack experience with modern AI/ML platforms (Vertex AI, SageMaker, Bedrock), LLM APIs, agent orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and Python. 

  • Depth in at least one of:

    • Front-end: React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)

    • Back-end: Java, TypeScript, Spring, Node.js

  • Production experience in AWS or GCP

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree preferred

  • Track record of influencing technical strategy across business units and aligning executives

  • Strong mentor; able to develop technical leaders and shape engineering culture

  • Excellent communicator; makes decisive technical calls in ambiguity

  • Drives results across cross-functional, globally distributed teams


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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. 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 fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Mountain View $261,500 - $353,500
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Career Path

Mobility plays an important role for our engineering community. In addition to vertical growth, our teams offer lateral growth opportunities. Whether it’s working on a different tech stack or product, Intuit will help you get to the next step in your career.

  • Software Engineer 1 & 2
  • Sr. Software Engineer
  • Staff Software Engineer
  • Sr. Staff Software Engineer
  • Principal Software Engineer
  • Distinguished Software Engineer

Intuit supports you, not just as you are now, but as the person that you want to grow to be.

Alex Pollock Senior Software Engineer

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