Principal Engineer, App Foundations

Intuit, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a senior software leader to accelerate AI-native product capabilities across TurboTax and Credit Karma infrastructure in San Diego.

You will drive end-to-end technical initiatives, design scalable, secure systems, and partner with Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to deliver features. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, design leadership, and a passion for applying AI across consumer financial platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software for large business environments.
• 5+ years designing complex distributed systems.
• Full-stack development with AI technologies and tools.
• Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python.
• Experience with front-end and back-end technologies (React/Angular, Java/TypeScript/Spring/Express).
• Cloud experience with AWS or GCP; AI-native apps development experience.

Responsibilities

• Drives velocity by identifying opportunities across the company.
• Leads end-to-end technology initiatives across architecture layers.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end customer solutions.
• Designs robust, scalable, and secure software solutions balancing short- and long-term goals.
• Contributes to cross-functional design, development, and integration discussions.
• Ensures high availability and performance of applications in production environments.
• Keeps learning pace with cutting-edge technology and AI paradigms.

Skills

AI-native applications

Distributed systems

Full-stack development

Python

SageMaker

LangChain

React

TypeScript

Java

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Education

BS/MS in CS or related

Tools

SageMaker

Vertex AI

LangChain

DialogFlow

Python

React

Angular

Spring

Express

Job description

Intuit's Consumer Group is responsible for two of the leading financial products in the country: TurboTax, which helps tens of millions of people file with confidence every tax season, and Credit Karma, which gives more than 130 million members a clear, personalized view of their financial health. Both products depend on shared, resilient application infrastructure to move fast without breaking trust, and that infrastructure is what App Foundations, part of Platform Foundations within Consumer Group, is responsible for.

We're investing in a culture of 'builders' by fostering an environment where innovation, creativity, and bold thinking are encouraged. The 'builder' mindset is necessary for us to accelerate our move toward AI-native experiences. This requires more builders who can rapidly apply AI and emerging technologies to solve our customers' problems - across TurboTax's tax filing experiences and Credit Karma's financial health platform alike.

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
• 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

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

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

Qualifications

Technical Qualifications

• Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders
• 8+ years of experience developing systems or software for large business environments
• 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
• Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools, applying them to user experiences or backend solutions
• Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python
• Experience with at least one in each 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 or GCP is highly desired
• Prior experience working in teams that have built AI-native applications for 1+ years
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience

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 may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). 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:
San Diego $247,500 - $335,000