Staff Software Engineer – Unified Fintech API Platform

Intuit Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit Inc. in Mountain View is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Unified Fintech API and Capability Spec authoring system. You will lead cross-team architecture decisions, drive API surface consolidation, and enforce contract-driven development with CI/CD tooling.

The role merges API platforms with agent-ready tooling and fintech domain safety considerations. You will mentor engineers, influence roadmaps, and work on OpenAPI schemas, codegen, and developer portals to enable safe,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep API design and distributed systems.
• 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, LLM tool calling, or agent platforms
• 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

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

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Staff-level leadership

OpenAPI/REST

Codegen pipelines

CI/CD tooling

AI agent tooling

Fintech domain knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MCP tooling

SDK generation tooling

Developer portals

Job description

Intuit Inc. in Mountain View is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Unified Fintech API and Capability Spec authoring system. You will lead cross-team architecture decisions, drive API surface consolidation, and enforce contract-driven development with CI/CD tooling.

The role merges API platforms with agent-ready tooling and fintech domain safety considerations. You will mentor engineers, influence roadmaps, and work on OpenAPI schemas, codegen, and developer portals to enable safe,