Senior Staff / Principal Software Developer

Intuit Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Staff/Principal Software Developer to join their innovative team. This role involves driving technology initiatives and developing AI-native applications that solve customer problems. You'll work collaboratively across teams, leveraging your extensive experience in full-stack development and AI technologies. The company fosters a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, making this an exciting opportunity for those passionate about cutting-edge technology. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on the future of software development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development for large businesses.
• Experience designing complex distributed systems and AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology initiatives and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Design and implement scalable software solutions.

Skills

AI technologies

Full-stack development

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

SageMaker

Vert.x

LangChain

DialogFlow

Python

React

Java

AWS

Job description

Come join Intuit's community of 'Builder Catalysts' as a Senior Staff/ Principal Software Developer and help us power prosperity around the world.

Intuit's Builder Catalysts co-create with cross-functional partners and exhibit extreme ownership in the end-to-end product development lifecycle, including ideation, rapid experimentation, customer research, and execution. AI-native experiences are designed from the ground up with AI in mind, taking advantage of the unique benefits of AI to solve customers’ problems. Our Builder Catalysts are customer obsessed, demonstrate boundaryless collaboration & focus on transformative AI.

Responsibilities

1. Drives velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
2. Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
3. Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems.
4. Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment.
5. Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outside of their primary area of ownership.
6. Knowledge of building AI native applications
   • Guides the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies.
   • Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of solutions.
   • High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons.
   • Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications.
7. Creates robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications.
8. Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems.

Team/Collaboration

• Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, development, and integration.
• Works with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to design, develop, test, and release features.

Community

• Contributes to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve the engineering community.
• Provides perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders.
• 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
• 7+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications.
• Full-stack development experience with AI technologies/tools and applying them to user experiences or backend solutions.
• Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vert.x, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python.
• Experience with at least one of the following: Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android); Back-end technologies like Java, Typescript, Spring, Express (NodeJS).
• Prior experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly desired.
• Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area.

Team/Leadership Qualifications

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; team player.
• Strong mentoring skills; able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people.
• Prefers working in a team and collaborating with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
• Excellent communication skills; able to communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively at all levels.
• 'Self-starter' attitude with the ability to make decisions independently.
• Experience driving results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones.