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2024-50516 -

Principal Architect, Fintech

Location(s): Petah Tikva, Israel
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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 the Fintech group as a Principal Software Engineer developing the Business to Business (B2B) Payments experience for QuickBooks.

If you love having stretch goals, real-world challenges, and making customers incredibly happy while fostering your obsessive need for perfect code and user experience, this is the job for you.

Join our innovative team to help build the next generation of awesome products and experiences using cutting-edge technology.

In this role, you will act as the lead technical expert of the group. You will collaborate with many teams in Intuit and contribute to many components in different business units. We love engineers who lead the change, communicate with customers and deliver the most beautiful and intuitive applications.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years’ experience developing systems or software for large business environments (Java, J2EE)
  • 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
  • Experience with:
    • Web services (consuming or creating) with REST
    • Backend software development using Java, Spring, or SpringBoot to expose and consume RESTful web services
    • Unit testing frameworks, mocking, and data-driven tests
    • NoSQL and relational databases
    • Kafka and GraphQL
    • AWS (or Azure, GCP) 
    • Kubernetes and Docker
    • Microservices architecture
  • Proficient in front-end and back-end architecture and design
  • 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
  • Solid communication skills: demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams while maintaining an effective working relationship.
  • Experience driving engineering design using Agile process to drive innovation, accelerate decisions and outcomes while minimizing risk

Responsibilities

  • Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture
  • Hands-on participation in software engineering work (±60%)
  • Gain an understanding of our current state and then define the Target State Architecture and Strategy. Drive toward adoption of the target-state architecture by executing on the strategy. Must possess the leadership qualities necessary to drive change and adoption of the strategy.
  • Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships / alignment with partners across the business
  • Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
  • Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project and test planning
  • Acting in a technical leadership capacity: mentoring junior and senior engineers, new team members, and applying technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
  • Contribute by developing end-to-end solutions for complex problems, interfacing with multiple services and platforms, and multiple Business Units and organizations. 
  • Strong technical skills with the ability to contribute and review architectures, design, and code.
  • Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
  • Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms
  • Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zone
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Gleb Intuit employee
"When I encounter a technical problem, I feel driven to find a solution that is simple, human, and easy to understand."
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Morag Intuit employee
"It’s important to always strive for improvement, even if you’re already in a good place."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Natalie Intuit employee
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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Conrad Intuit employee
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Joylyn Intuit employee
"Designing at Intuit feels special because we're not just making things to make things. We're tackling real, consequential financial problems voiced by small businesses, self-employed, and individuals around the world. I'm grateful to have such a worthy and motivating mission when I go to work – powering prosperity around the world."
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Conrad Intuit employee
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
Emily at work
Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
Troy at work
Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
Photo of Natalie
Natalie Intuit employee
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
Emily at work
Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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Heather Intuit employee
"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."
Alexandria at work
Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
Troy at work
Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
Jake at work
Jake Intuit employee
"We use the latest Native frameworks for iOS and Android to deliver a truly delightful mobile-first experience for our customers. I love that we're enabling millions of customers to improve their financial health, all under a world-class mobile experience."
Alexandria at work
Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
Emily at work
Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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Breaunna Intuit employee
"It's a great feeling knowing that when you push out a new feature or fix, our customers notice it and really love the work that we do! Here at Intuit, not only do we have the freedom to work with the newest technologies, but we value solving challenging financial problems for our customers above everything else."
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Chelsia Intuit employee
"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
Troy at work
Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

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