Senior Backend Engineer & Tech Lead, SaaS Platform

Intuit; Fishers (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit's QuickBooks Capital & Lending platform team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to build enterprise-scale software using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS, Elasticsearch, and Kafka for QuickBooks customers. The role blends hands-on coding (40-60%) with system design, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-functional work across product, QA/QE, and business units.

The candidate will operate within Agile environments, drive SDLC best practices, and contribute to scalable,

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience designing and developing online SaaS applications (Backend).
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Expertise with Java/J2EE, SQL, AWS and other backend development technologies. Proficient with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude or Codex)
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 5+ years experience with web services (REST or SOAP)
• Excellent communication skills: explain complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in Software design/architecture
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Business acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development
• Building strong teams - vision, facilitative leadership, talent retention
• Experience handling On-call responsibilities & production incidents for large scale SaaS apps

Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing online web applications, prototypes, or POCs
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: mentoring engineers, demonstrating expertise, and leading a small team
• Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding; rest focused on system design, operational excellence, and mentoring junior engineers
• Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural options and educate teams and users
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with product management, QA/QE, product lines, and business units
• Demonstrate passion for well-architected web/mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming

Skills

Java/J2EE

RESTful services

SQL

Spring Boot

AWS

TDD

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Communication

Kotlin

Education

BS/MS in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

Intuit's QuickBooks Capital & Lending platform team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to build enterprise-scale software using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS, Elasticsearch, and Kafka for QuickBooks customers. The role blends hands-on coding (40-60%) with system design, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-functional work across product, QA/QE, and business units.

The candidate will operate within Agile environments, drive SDLC best practices, and contribute to scalable,