Principal Forward Deployed Engineer — Payments Migration

Intuit Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 354,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit Inc. in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead strategic migrations of QB Payments and QB Invoicing into partner platforms. You will own discovery, design, execution, cutover, and reusable tooling for high-stakes live money movements with customers.

You will travel to customer sites, guide integration decisions, and mentor teams while managing complex reconciliation, token migration, and settlement flows across processors like Stripe, PayPal, and Adyen.

Qualifications

• Hands-on payments API integration experience.
• Experience migrating payments to/from major processors.
• Experience in forward-deployed, customer-facing engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationships with strategic customers migrating payment processing.
• Design and execute migration plans for payment data, tokens, and history.
• Partner with strategic partners to weave QB Payments and QB Invoicing into their products.
• Architect multi-entity payment structures and complex reconciliation.

Skills

Payments APIs

Migration expertise

Forward-deployed role

Customer/partner facing

10+ years software engineering

Strong communication

Job description

THE ROLE

Intuit is bringing on a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to sit inside our highest-stakes payments work: strategic customers moving real payment volume onto QuickBooks Payments, and strategic partners building QB Payments and QB Invoicing directly into their own products. This is not a generic "connect an API" integration role. It's the technical seat at the table when a business migrates live money movement off Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Square, or Adyen - where a mishandled token, a missed reconciliation edge case, or an overlooked chargeback flow has immediate customer and revenue consequences.

You will own these engagements technically end-to-end: discovery, migration design, execution, cutover, and the reusable tooling that makes the next migration faster. You'll also be the hands-on technical lead when a strategic partner needs QB Payments and QB Invoicing woven into their own solution - not handed a spec, but co-building it with them.

Responsibilities

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the technical relationship with strategic customers migrating payment processing to Intuit, from discovery through cutover and stabilization.
• Design and execute migration plans for moving payment data, stored payment methods and tokens, and transaction history from processors like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Square, and Adyen onto QuickBooks Payments.
• Partner directly with key strategic partners integrating QB Payments and QB Invoicing into their own products, acting as the hands-on technical lead for their build.
• Architect for multi-entity payment structures, complex reconciliation, and payment token migration that hold up under real, live transaction volume.
• Design explicitly for the parts of payments that are easiest to get wrong: refunds, chargebacks, deposit reconciliation, cash flow timing, and integrating credit or financing products.
• Turn each strategic engagement into reusable migration tooling and playbooks, so every subsequent migration is faster and lower-risk than the last.
• Serve as the technical escalation point when a migration hits an edge case in production - debug across the API, ledger, and reconciliation layers.
• Travel to strategic customer and partner sites as needed to unblock critical migrations and integrations.

Qualifications

WHO YOU ARE

• A genuine payments and fintech expert with deep, hands-on knowledge of payment APIs and integrations - not conceptual familiarity, but scars from building against them.
• Direct experience migrating payments to or from processors such as Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Square, or Adyen.
• Working knowledge of multi-entity payment structures, complex reconciliation, and payment token migration.
• Command of the operational realities of payments: refunds, chargebacks, deposit reconciliation, cash flow implications, and integrating credit or financing products.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or customer/partner-facing technical role.
• Comfortable owning a technical relationship end-to-end with a strategic customer or partner, including the hard conversations when a migration hits a snag.
• Strong communication skills - able to explain migration risk and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and business stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to customer and partner sites as needed.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience building payment integrations from the platform or PSP side, not only as a consumer of one.
• Familiarity with PCI compliance and tokenization standards, including network tokens.
• Prior work on payments for multi-sided marketplaces or embedded finance products.

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:
Mountain View $261,500 - $353,500