Staff Software Engineer

Company Overview

Job Overview

The Virtual Expert Platform (VEP) team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help deliver innovative, full-stack experiences for TurboTax and QuickBooks Live. In this role you would leverage your hands-on engineering expertise to expand our platform so we can delight Intuit’s millions of users with amazing digital experiences!

We challenge ourselves to be the best - through our hunger for technical and personal growth while creating world-class software. We are lifelong students and teachers, always learning from and evolving ourselves and the people, processes, and technology around us. If this culture sounds interesting – we would love to talk to you about joining our team!

Responsibilities

• Write scalable web application code with the utmost attention to detail, inclusive of accessibility, performance, scalability, security.
• Build the effective internal and external relationships that are essential to delivering awesome software
• Leverage your technical leadership to mentor junior engineers, and apply your wisdom towards solving our most difficult architecture and implementation challenges
• Leverage industry trends so as to make the best technology choices and strategic decisions
• Take vague customer problems and solve end to end with teamwork and accountability
• 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
• Roughly 50-70% hands-on coding
• Generate technical documentation 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, Design and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience developing high-volume web applications using Java
• Expert-level knowledge of the Spring framework
• 2+ years experience with Amazon Web Services
• 4+ years experience with React
• Developing a public facing cloud app at scale, where you gained expertise in all aspects of the Web SDLC from design & implementation to deployment and operations.
• Proficient in full-stack architecture & design that serve millions of users
• Strong knowledge of industry best practices for such applications
• Experience in leveraging Amazon Web Services for building scalable applications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field, or commensurate work experience and knowledge
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader.
• Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will 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: