Principal Software Engineer

San Diego, California

Intuit
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Overview

Overview: We're investing in a culture of "builders" by fostering an environment where innovation, creativity, and bold thinking are encouraged. I believe that the "builder" mindset is necessary for us to accelerate our move toward AI-native experiences. This requires more builders who can rapidly apply AI and emerging technologies to solve our customers' problems.

What you'll bring
  • Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders
  • 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
  • 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications.
  • Full-stack development experience with AI technologies/tools and apply it to user experiences or backend solutions.
  • Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vert.x, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python
  • Experience with at least one of the following:
  • Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
  • Back-end technologies like Java, Typescript, Spring, Express (NodeJS)
  • Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly desired.
  • Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related area.
Team/Leadership Qualifications
  • Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Strong mentoring skills. Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people
  • Prefers working in a team and collaborates with other cross-functional partners.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
  • Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
  • "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
  • Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones
How you will lead
  • Drives velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
  • Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
  • Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems.
  • Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment
  • Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outside of their primary area of ownership.
  • Knowledge of building AI native applications
  • Guides the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies.
  • Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of solutions.
  • High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons.
  • Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications.
  • Creates robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications
  • Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems
Team/ Collaboration:
  • Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, development, and integration
  • Works with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to design, develop, test, and release features
Community:
  • Contributes to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve the engineering community.
  • Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $233,000-315,000 and Mountain View $247,500-$335,000 . 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 pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.

Date Posted: 15 April 2025
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