Senior Staff Software Engineer

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View to lead and accelerate large-scale AI-enabled product engineering. You will partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver durable, scalable software across cloud and on‑premise environments.

You will mentor teams, drive cross-functional initiatives, and shape technical direction with hands-on design and coding in modern stacks and AI tooling such as SageMaker, LangChain, and React/NodeJS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
• 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and AI-native applications.

Responsibilities

• Drives velocity by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes across the company.
• Leads end-to-end technology initiatives, including horizontal architecture layers.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and release features.
• Creates durable, scalable, and secure software designs balancing short- and long-term goals.
• Applies knowledge of AI to build real-world solutions and evaluate AI tools and models.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Full-stack AI development

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

SageMaker

LangChain

React

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Overview

Come join the Intuit as a Sr Staff Software Engineer and help us power prosperity around the world for our customers. 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 by leveraging AI & relevant technology frameworks.

Overview

Come join the Intuit as a Sr Staff Software Engineer and help us power prosperity around the world for our customers. 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 by leveraging AI & relevant technology frameworks.

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 solutionsHigh-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
• 8+ years of experience developing systems/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/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

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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 (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 $220,500 - $298,500