Intuit · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer for AI Powered Tax
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$242K/yr - $328K/yr
8+ years expIntuit is a leading financial software company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer for AI Powered Tax. This role focuses on driving technical strategy and execution, leading significant technology initiatives, and leveraging AI technologies to enhance customer experiences and backend solutions.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive design and implementation of durable, scalable software solutions, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications
Drive target state architecture for company-wide capabilities, collaborating actively with technical leaders across the organization
Demonstrate deep expertise across the software lifecycle, acting as a role model in full cycle engineering—encompassing design, implementation, and operationalization
Continuously evolve development practices and operational maturity through structured root cause analysis and monitoring
Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end and provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommending new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, and engineering process improvements
Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems, sharing key learnings to improve organizational knowledge
Be able to make data-backed decisions and drive the right level of instrumentation and experimentation to support technical choices
Understand customer behaviors and partner with cross-functional teams to drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems
Leverage full-stack development experience with AI technologies/tools, applying them to enhance user experiences or backend solutions
Guide the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies
Drive the technical implementation to develop componentized/widgetized experiences using modern web frameworks (like React) and microservices built with Java on Kubernetes within the public cloud
Possess a high-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons, and apply the latest tools and technologies in this space
Drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering effectively with numerous stakeholders
Collaborate actively with other groups for cross-functional design, solution integration, and on-boarding of offerings (mobile/SaaS/PaaS/web)
Work closely with cross-functional partners from Architecture, Product Management, Quality Assurance, and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features efficiently
Serve as a technical leader and role model to other engineers, offering strong mentoring skills and inspiring a high technical bar for the team
Influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people, possessing excellent communication skills to speak clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees and management (including executives)
Demonstrate a "self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently, exhibiting high adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced, complex technical environment
Contribute to the engineering community by defining standards, patterns, and best practices
Experience driving for results and achieving alignment across cross-functional and global teams across time zones
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments
5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years is required
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related area
Multiple years of experience developing, deploying, and operating high-scale, mission-critical services in the cloud
Demonstrated strength in cloud native technologies and operating high scale services in the cloud (e.g., AWS/GCP)
Demonstrated experience in designing highly resilient services and building recovery mechanisms
Full-stack expertise in designing and implementing robust and highly scalable web services
Solid Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles
Experience with backend technologies such as Java (or J2EE), Typescript, Spring, or Express (NodeJS)
Experience with modern front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), or Kotlin (Android)
Skilled in software development lifecycle processes (SCRUM, Agile, iterative approaches)
Strong background in the adoption of AI skills in both traditional and Generative-AI
Experience with key AI technologies and frameworks such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, and Python
Ability to utilize evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of AI solutions
Possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Ability to operate at varying levels of abstraction, from business strategy to detailed technical implementation
Ability to synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs and complex data
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.52BKey Investors
JP Morgan Chase
2025-01-31Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2023-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2011-01-19Post Ipo Equity· $6.7M
Leadership Team
Sasan Goodarzi
Chief Executive Officer
Alex Balazs
Chief Technology Officer
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