Sr. Staff Software Engineer

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

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to help build an onboarding and account management platform for cash flow products. You’ll lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers and designers to deliver scalable fintech experiences.

The role emphasizes API-first backend with frontend collaboration, high performance standards, and security. Mountain View is the target location with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with 2+ years as a solutions architect.
• Deep knowledge of data architecture: SQL, NoSQL, and data caching technologies.
• Experience designing and maintaining large-scale backend web services.
• Backend tech (Java) with frontend exposure (React, CSS) and performance monitoring.
• Data pipelines experience and applying them to user experiences or backend solutions.
• Experience communicating strategy and architecture to leadership.
• Experience building and operating large-scale web platforms and microservices in an API-first environment.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and enable rapid delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical vision and platform mindset for reusable components and long-term strategy.
• Drive velocity by identifying opportunities across the company.
• Ensure high availability, security, and performance of APIs and experiences.
• Collaborate with product management and design to develop scalable plans.
• Mentor team members to raise technical acumen and adopt best practices.
• Develop durable software solutions balancing short-term wins with long-term goals.
• Contribute to cross-functional problem solving across teams.

Skills

Java

React

CSS

SQL

NoSQL

Data Pipelines

Architecture

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Tools

Redis

Memcached

Job description

Come join the Intuit Money Account Team as a Sr. Staff Software Engineer. Our group is building an Intuit wide onboarding and account management platform to allow customers to signup and manage cash flow products. You’ll work with a group of passionate engineers, product managers and designers to build next level Fintech onboarding experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical vision with a platform mindset to build and integrate with reusable components and work towards a long term vision with short term wins.
• Responsible for the execution of the vision – insights from customer behavior leading to better customer nurture optimization.
• Drive velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
• Lead operational excellence to deliver highly available, scalable web applications and microservices with utmost attention to quality, security, and performance metrics for APIs and experiences.
• Engrossed in the details of product, tech and architecture in order to co-create a feasible development plan with cross-functional stakeholders (Product management and Design).
• Collaborate cross-functionally (with product management, design and program management) through change management and provide the technical guidance and evaluations needed to maintain high quality product experiences for customers..
• Create 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.
• 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
• High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons
• Mentors and teaches team members to raise the technical acumen on the overall team.
• Proactively brings high impact technologies and engineering practices into the company
• Collaborates effectively with and influences peers to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on software development experience, with 2+ years of working as a solutions architect.
• Deep knowledge/experience with data architecture: SQL, NoSQL, and data caching technologies/in‑memory databases such as MemCached and Redis.
• Experience designing and maintaining large‑scale backend web services
• Experience with backend technologies (Java) and integrating with enterprise capabilities and comfortable with frontend technologies (React, CSS) and driving performance and monitoring for optimal customer experience.
• Back end development experience with Data Pipelines & applying them to user experiences or backend solutions.
• Demonstrate experience working across different altitudes, from code quality/delivery management and reviewing technical architecture proposals to communicating strategy and domain capabilities plans with team and senior leadership.
• Demonstrate experience building and operating large scale web platforms and microservices in an API‑first environment, with emphasis on managing operational excellence and high‑quality customer experiences.
• Demonstrate experience works across teams and functions to break down barriers to enable teams to move with urgency.
• Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives).
• 'Self‑starter' attitude and the ability to make independent decisions.
• Strong mentoring experience.
• Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical people.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experienc

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 $220,500 - $298,500