Senior Staff Software Engineer

Intuit; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to accelerate AI-native product development with a strong focus on end-to-end ownership and cross-functional collaboration. The role emphasizes building scalable, secure software and applying AI thoughtfully across customer experiences.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in large-scale systems and 7+ years designing distributed platforms, with experience in SageMaker, LangChain, and modern web stacks.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems and business applications.
• Strong full-stack capabilities with AI technologies for UX or backend.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Proficiency with Python and modern web stacks.

Responsibilities

• Drive velocity by identifying opportunities and accelerating outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end technology initiatives across architecture layers.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Design durable, scalable software balancing short- and long-term goals.
• Apply AI techniques to real-world customer problems and evaluate models.

Skills

Distributed systems

Full-stack AI

SageMaker

LangChain

Prompt Engineering

Python

Front-end (React/Angular)

Back-end (Java/Typescript)

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

AI native apps

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

SageMaker

Vert.x

LangChain

DialogFlow

Job description

Come join Intuit's community of 'Builder catalysts' as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and help us power prosperity around the world. Intuit's Builder catalysts co-create with cross-functional partners and exhibit extreme ownership in the end-to-end product development lifecycle, including ideation, rapid experimentation, customer research, and execution. AI-native experiences are designed from the ground up with AI in mind, taking advantage of the unique benefits of AI to solve customers’ problems. Our Builder catalysts are customer obsessed, demonstrate boundaryless collaboration & focus on transformative AI. This is a hybrid role with the expectation of working from our New York office 3 days per week.

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 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.
• 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.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is: New York - $208,000 - $289,500

These positions will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs.

Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Qualifications

• Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders
• 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
• 7+ 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.

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

New York $220,500 - $298,000