Staff Frontend Engineer — Identity Platform Lead

Intuit; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the MailChimp Identity team in San Diego. You will lead a team of engineers to design and build the next generation Identity system that powers Intuit's strategy across MailChimp and QuickBooks, with Kubernetes powered services and secure, scalable user experiences.

You will own frontend and backend architecture, mentor engineers, drive SDLC, and collaborate with product, QA, and business units to ship high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing, maintaining, and innovating enterprise level cloud-native applications or platform, specifically in the front end.
• Strong leadership experience: leading meetings, presenting, cross-functional leader
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Strong coding skills with the following: JavaScript/React, Python
• Working knowledge of Java/J2EE, Kotlin would be helpful
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 3+ years’ experience with micro services architecture and API designs (REST, GraphQL)
• A passion for operational excellence and DevOps mentality
• Excellent communication skills: explain complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development

Responsibilities

• In this role you will be the overall lead of Identity front end, which includes a hosted authoring environment, administrative UIs, and runtime application UI generations
• Architecting and developing software, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems
• Generate technical documentation and PowerPoint presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, frontend or backend software.
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

Skills

JavaScript/React

Python

DevOps

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Java/J2EE

Kotlin

REST/GraphQL

React

Job description

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the MailChimp Identity team in San Diego. You will lead a team of engineers to design and build the next generation Identity system that powers Intuit's strategy across MailChimp and QuickBooks, with Kubernetes powered services and secure, scalable user experiences.

You will own frontend and backend architecture, mentor engineers, drive SDLC, and collaborate with product, QA, and business units to ship high-quality software.