Staff Software Engineer - Payments & AI-Native Platform

Intuit, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 203,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

CK Money, the neobank within Intuit Credit Karma, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own account origination, deposits, transfers, and real-time money movement. You will work on a cloud-native stack using Scala and TypeScript, GraphQL, Kafka, and Google Cloud, shipping features with strong emphasis on correctness and latency.

Join a hands-on team building AI-enabled capabilities, guiding design, mentoring engineers, and partnering with banks and networks to meet regulatory obligations while

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering enterprise-class applications with backend focus.
• 5+ years designing complex distributed systems at scale.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Core languages: TypeScript and/or Scala (or JVM language).
• APIs: design and consumption of web APIs, GraphQL schema design and federation.

Responsibilities

• Own critical banking systems end-to-end across the stack for Checking, Savings, and money movement.
• Architect for scale, correctness, and trust with high availability and performance.
• Spend 60–70% of time writing production code while guiding the team’s technical direction.
• Lead Kafka-based event-streaming patterns to keep balances, transactions, and notifications consistent at scale.
• Drive AI-native innovations and production features with measurable impact.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers through hard problems.
• Own requirements, design, sequencing, and test planning across multiple systems/teams.
• Partner with sponsor banks, processors, and networks for compliance and data integration.
• Champion automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and accessibility.
• Elevate engineering talent and address systemic gaps through mentoring and collaboration.
• Communicate design choices clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

TypeScript

Scala

GraphQL

Kafka

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Job description

CK Money, the neobank within Intuit Credit Karma, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own account origination, deposits, transfers, and real-time money movement. You will work on a cloud-native stack using Scala and TypeScript, GraphQL, Kafka, and Google Cloud, shipping features with strong emphasis on correctness and latency.

Join a hands-on team building AI-enabled capabilities, guiding design, mentoring engineers, and partnering with banks and networks to meet regulatory obligations while