Staff Software Engineer, Fintech API

Intuit; Sandusky (OH); On-site; USD 203,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the Unified Fintech API and Capability Spec authoring system. You will lead API design for a scalable, contract-driven platform powering autonomous financial tools and agent-ready capabilities.

You will drive cross-team architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and influence roadmaps, while ensuring safety and compliance in fintech actions. Mountain View base and competitive total rewards apply.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with API design and distributed systems at scale.
• Staff-level or equivalent leadership experience across multiple teams and architectures.
• Strong background in API platforms, OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, and developer portals.
• Hands-on experience with AI agent tooling (MCP, LLM tool/calling) and agent platforms like Claude or ChatGPT Actions.
• Experience building CI/CD systems and codegen pipelines that enforce contracts at scale.
• Familiarity with fintech domains (payments, lending, payroll, wallet) and safety/compliance for agent-initiated actions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to align engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Capability Spec framework and enable auto-generation of OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, MCP tools, and docs.
• Consolidate fragmented API surfaces into the Unified Fintech API, an agent-ready contract.
• Build CI/CD enforcement to block hand-edits to generated artifacts and keep specs, code, and docs in sync.
• Create tooling to auto-generate Functional and Integration Skills, MCP tools, and client SDKs from Capability Specs.
• Set technical direction across Fintech API teams and mentor engineers while shaping roadmaps.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

OpenAPI/REST

CI/CD tooling

AI agent tooling

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MCP

Claude

ChatGPT Actions

Job description

Overview

Intuit's Fintech API team is rebuilding the API platform for a world where AI agents, not human developers, are the primary consumers of fintech capabilities. We're moving from hand-written OpenAPI specs and ad-hoc MCP wrappers to a model where every fintech capability is defined once as a Capability Spec, with OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, and MCP tools auto-generated and enforced at PR time. This work already powers the QuickBooks Connector on Claude and ChatGPT, with 40+ Fintech tools live in production and early signal from engaged invoicing and Capital loan customers. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next layer of this platform: the Unified Fintech API, the Capability Spec authoring system, and the agent-readiness tooling that makes every fintech capability safely and reliably invocable by autonomous agents at scale. This is a foundational, cross-team role shaping how Intuit's financial capabilities show up in the agentic era.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Capability Spec framework — the single editable source of truth from which OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, MCP tool definitions, and portal docs are auto-generated
• Drive consolidation of fragmented, team-specific API surfaces into the Unified Fintech API, a composable, agent-ready contract
• Build CI/CD enforcement — PR gates, validation rules, drift detection — that blocks hand-edits to generated artifacts and keeps specs, code, and docs in sync
• Build tooling to auto-generate Functional and Integration Skills, MCP tools, and client SDKs directly from Capability Specs
• Set technical direction across the Fintech API and Agent-Ready Enabler teams; mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap decisions without relying on direct authority

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep API design and distributed systems experience at scale
• Demonstrated Staff-level (or equivalent) technical leadership: driving cross-team architecture decisions and setting technical direction across multiple teams
• Strong background in API platforms - OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, API lifecycle and developer portal tooling
• Hands-on experience with AI agent tooling — MCP (Model Context Protocol), LLM tool/function calling, or agentic developer platforms (Claude, ChatGPT Actions)
• Experience building CI/CD systems, codegen pipelines, or platform tooling that enforces contracts at scale
• Familiarity with fintech domains (payments, lending, payroll, wallet) and the safety/compliance requirements of agent-initiated financial actions is a strong plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build alignment across engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

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 $202,500 - $274,000