Staff Software Developer

Job Overview

Join the TurboTax technology team as a Staff Software Developer to work with millions of users and create a world-class digital product. As a leader in the industry, we are dedicated to innovation, growth, and personal development.

We are hiring across multiple teams as Toronto is a growth site and we are growing across multiple product teams including: Virtual Expert Platform Team, DataX Team, AI-First Tax Experiences Team, and TurboTax Product Development Team which all require technical expertise, leadership, and a focus on quality product development. As part of these teams, you will work with exciting colleagues and utilize your proficiency in React, JavaScript, Java/Kotlin, and Python in Full-Stack/Front-End/Back-End web application development. As well as hands-on engineering experience, and AI knowledge, to create and maintain large features and capabilities to build an unrivaled TurboTax experience.

Our culture is centered on continuous growth, student-teacher relationships, and learning from the people, processes, and technology around us to create amazing digital experiences for our diverse customer base. Join our team and contribute to our mission of creating a seamless and efficient tax filing experience for millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Write scalable web application code with the utmost attention to detail, inclusive of accessibility, performance, scalability, security.
• Build the effective internal and external relationships that are essential to delivering awesome software
• Leverage your technical leadership to mentor junior engineers, and apply your wisdom towards solving our most difficult architecture and implementation challenges
• Leverage industry trends so as to make the best technology choices and strategic decisions
• Take vague customer problems and solve end to end with teamwork and accountability
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• 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
• Generate technical documentation and PowerPoint presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, QA, Design and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

Qualifications

• Developing a public facing cloud app at scale, where you gained expertise in all aspects of the Web SDLC from design & implementation to deployment and operations.
• Proficient in full-stack architecture & design that serve millions of users
• Strong knowledge of industry best practices for such applications
• Strong Java and JavaScript proficiency.
• Experience with modern Back End and Front End frameworks.
• Experience in leveraging Amazon Web Services for building scalable applications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field, or commensurate work experience and knowledge
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader.