Principal Software Engineer

Intuit Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in the UK seeks a Principal Software Engineer to drive key technology initiatives and develop AI native applications. This role requires extensive experience in software development and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, as well as a collaborative mindset for cross-functional teamwork. Competitive compensation, cash bonuses, and equity rewards are offered in line with job-related expertise.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Cash bonus opportunities

Equity rewards

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
• 7+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems.
• Full-stack development experience with AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end.
• Create robust, scalable, and secure technical designs.
• Identify and drive customer problems through cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Team collaboration

Problem-solving skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related area

Tools

SageMaker

LangChain

Large Language Models

Python

React

Java

Job description

Come join Intuit as a Principal Software Engineer and help us power prosperity around the world. We are looking for engineers that love to take on new challenges, solve tough problems, and have deep empathy for our customers. You’ll work with a small group of passionate engineers, product managers and designers.

Responsibilities

• Drives velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
• Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
• Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems.
• Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outside of their primary area of ownership.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements.

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 apply it 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 working 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

• Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Strong mentoring skills. Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people.
• Prefers working in a team and collaborates with other cross-functional partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
• Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives).
• Self-starter attitude and the ability to make decisions independently.
• Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones.

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. 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: