Staff Software Developer

Job Overview

Come join the TurboTax Foundation organization as a Staff Software Engineer.  The TurboTax Foundation team develops high-volume platform capabilities that enable customer facing experiences that are leveraged by Intuit customers to complete their tax returns.  Our team is on the leading edge of full-stack development at Intuit, working with product managers to deliver amazing user experiences.  Our code is a critical part of Intuit and is used by millions of customers each year.  We adopted agile processes to move fast.  We consider our people as the most important asset – we take the growth of our engineers seriously.

Responsibilities

Technology leaders at Intuit think strategically and drive for results. They build high performing teams by putting the right people in the right job at the right time. Leaders help to innovate by thinking differently. They lead their teams to embrace new ideas that produce outstanding results for our customers. Leaders at Intuit inspire others through actions by creating a spirit of collaboration. With technical and leadership expertise, you lead engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

• In this role you will help to bring out the best ideas from the best engineers by empowering them and leading by example
• Lead a team to build AI native applications through a deep understanding of the latest AI trend, AI models, tools and the frameworks
• Create and bring customer driven software products to market that simplify and solve for current customer needs while building for the future
• Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment
• To accomplish this, you will create shared vision and build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships / alignment with partners across the business (e.g. Product Management, Data Scientists, Design and Software Engineers)

Qualifications

• 5 plus years’ experience as an established technical leader of software engineering teams that have successfully delivered customer-driven software products
• Lead a team of Software Engineers focused on improving developer velocity, scalability, and testability of Intuit’s diverse project areas and platforms
• Full stack development experience with AI technologies/tools and apply it to user experiences and backend solutions. Experience with AI technologies like Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, LangChain etc.
• Passion for being at the leading edge of technology with a minimum of 12-14 years of hands-on software development experience on Java, Python, React, Kubernetes, Kafka / Flink, SQL / NoSQL DB, Vector Database
• Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly desired
• Demonstrated experience leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovative solutions, and fostering effective engineering teams
• Adept at articulating the product vision and driving the future roadmap with strong business acumen.
• Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure
• Create the next generation developer tooling and infrastructure for Intuit, focusing on productivity, testing, and release
• Define the team strategy and roadmap for the adoption of developer tools and test infrastructure for one or more products
• Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders on a regular basis
• Ability to think and act strategically for all stakeholders
• "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
• Experience with Agile development and methodologies and SaaS and/or mobile technologies
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience