Staff Software Engineer

Company Overview

Job Overview

Come join the Intuit Personalization Platform team as a Staff Software Engineer. This team is responsible for core technologies that enable a highly personalized, delightful experience for our customers. You will be using cutting edge technologies such as React, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, and machine-learning models to build tooling and services to unlock this capability.

We are looking for team members who love solving big customer challenges and writing beautiful code that translate into intuitive applications.

Responsibilities

·Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning

·Designing/developing prototypes or proofs of concepts (PoC’s).

·Self-starter attitude and ability to make decisions independently.

·Influence and drive best practices and technical excellence within your team.

·Drive backend architecture that optimizes for scalability, availability while supporting rapid experimentation.

·Mentoring junior engineers, new team members, and applying technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems.

·Roughly 70-85% hands-on coding.

·Ability to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people.

·Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, Design, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results.

·Contribute to the design and architecture of the project.

·Build and maintain common components used by multiple teams.

·Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

·Passion for troubleshooting issues in production and being data driven

Qualifications

·MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.

·Solid hands on experience building large and complex highly available, highly scalable, low latency distributed systems

·Hands-on experience building ML inference infrastructure systems

·8+ years of programming experience using Java, Node, REST and Spring

·Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process

·Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

·Strong database fundamentals including SQL & no SQL (Cassandra), performance and schema design

·Experience with various offerings from AWS - S3, EC2, EMR, ELB/ALB

·Understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and management (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle).

·Passion for troubleshooting issues in production and being data driven

·Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.

·Always Be Learning: Experience with open source technologies (if no practical work experience w/ Big Data, or cutting edge back-end technology—you’re prototyping and/or researching the upcoming technology and solution)

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: