Principal Software Engineer, Fintech Agentic AI

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

Job summary

INTUIT INC. in Mountain View seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own the long-term technology vision for agent-readiness across Fintech.

You will align capability exposure and repo contribution readiness with Intuit's platform strategy, solving cross-team, cross-domain challenges and guiding technical direction. The role requires 12+ years in software engineering, strong leadership, and fintech domain knowledge.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated Principal-level leadership across multiple teams or initiatives.
• Experience defining architecture across domain boundaries.
• Experience driving platform strategy with external visibility.
• Strong grounding in fintech domains and compliance requirements.
• Proven track record mentoring Staff/Sr Staff engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technology vision and strategy for Fintech's agent-readiness domain.
• Solve end-to-end, hard problems spanning capability and repo readiness.
• Champion capability reuse across Fintech and adjacent Intuit domains.
• Make technology decisions with long-term impact and clear tradeoffs.
• Drive work across multiple teams and external collaborators.
• Represent fintech agent-readiness strategy to leadership and industry.
• Actively invest in talent through mentoring and calibration.

Skills

API platforms

OpenAPI/REST design

Domain architecture

Technical leadership

Mentoring Staff/Sr Staff

Regulatory & compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MCP tooling

Schema-driven codegen

OpenAPI tooling

Job description

Intuit's Fintech Agentic AI program rests on two bets: making every fintech capability safely invocable by customer-facing agents, and making Fintech's codebases legible and safe for coding agents to contribute to (Repo & Agent Contribution Readiness — the Repo Standard, cross-repo dependency graphs, and agent-authored PR pipelines). This already powers the QuickBooks Connector on Claude and ChatGPT, and our own Intuit Intelligence capability.

We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to own the multi-year technology vision and strategy for agent-readiness across Fintech — both bets, end to end. This is domain ownership: the architecture underlying capability exposure and repo contribution readiness must integrate cleanly with each other and with adjacent Intuit platforms, and must align with Intuit's company-wide technology strategy, not just Fintech's roadmap. This role solves the hard, ambiguous problems no one has assigned yet, sets principled technology direction with multi-year consequences, and represents Intuit's agent-readiness approach both internally across orgs and externally in the industry.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technology vision and strategy for Fintech's agent-readiness domain — capability exposure and repo contribution readiness as one integrated architecture, aligned with Intuit's company-wide platform and AI strategy
• Solve end-to-end, hard problems that span both efforts and fill gaps no team currently owns: the seams between capability-level agent readiness (Capability Spec, Unified Fintech API, MCP tools) and repo-level agent readiness (dependency mapping, agent-authored PRs, agent-driven testing)
• Champion capability and standard reuse across Fintech and adjacent Intuit domains, driving clarity of ownership so agent-readiness investments compound instead of fragmenting again
• Make technology decisions steeped in clear, durable principles with long-term impact to Intuit — guiding teams on which decisions are one-way vs. two-way doors, unblocking through fast, well-documented calls rather than long debates
• Drive and guide work spanning multiple teams (Fintech API, Agent-Ready Enabler, and dependent teams outside the org) developing solutions new to Intuit or to the industry — setting technical direction other Staff and Sr Staff engineers execute against
• Represent Intuit's fintech agent-readiness strategy to org and company leadership, Product, and Compliance; contribute externally through publications, conference talks, or industry standards work on agentic protocols and repo-contribution safety

• Actively invest in talent — mentoring and calibrating Staff/Sr Staff engineers, raising the technical bar across the domain, and building the pipeline of technical leaders who can carry this vision forward

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning technology strategy for a domain (not just executing within one)
• Demonstrated Principal-level leadership: setting multi-year technical vision and strategy across multiple teams or a company-wide initiative, with technology decisions that carry long-term consequences for Intuit
• Deep background in API platforms and agent-readiness infrastructure — OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, MCP and agentic tool-calling, and repo-level contribution tooling (dependency graphs, agent-driven testing, contribution readiness standards)
• Experience defining architecture that integrates across domain boundaries — not just within a single team's or org's surface
• Experience driving company-wide technical standards or platform strategy that other orgs adopt, ideally with external visibility (publications, conference talks, patents, or industry standards contributions)
• Strong grounding in fintech domains (payments, lending, payroll, wallet) and the safety/compliance requirements of agent-initiated financial actions and agent-authored code
• Track record of developing technical leaders — mentoring Staff/Sr Staff engineers and actively participating in calibration, hiring, and talent review processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build alignment with company leadership, engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders, and to influence outside direct authority

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

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