Senior Staff SWE - Fintech AI & Payments Architect, Equity

Intuit; New York (NY); On-site; USD 221,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of our money platform. You will work with product, design, and other engineers to build scalable, production-grade systems that handle high transaction volumes with security and reliability.

You will lead cross-functional efforts across AI-native architectures, edge cases, and compliance, delivering measurable bets and experiments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building systems for large business environments.
• 7+ years designing complex distributed systems.
• Deep fluency with AI-native architecture and agent orchestration.
• Strong external-facing communication with senior stakeholders.
• Experience setting technical direction across large teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical problems with unclear definitions.
• Set technical direction across active capability areas and drive evolution.
• Distinguish foundational decisions requiring cross-team planning.
• Own strategic viability of customer-facing deliverables.
• Represent technical strategy to SLT, BD, Legal/Compliance.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI-native architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic direction

Mentoring

Strong communication

Education

BS/MS in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

Java

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Intuit in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of our money platform. You will work with product, design, and other engineers to build scalable, production-grade systems that handle high transaction volumes with security and reliability.

You will lead cross-functional efforts across AI-native architectures, edge cases, and compliance, delivering measurable bets and experiments.