Intuit · 4 days ago
Principal Software Engineer
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$242K/yr - $328K/yr
8+ years expIntuit is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Virtual Expert Platform organization. The role involves driving significant technology initiatives, designing and implementing software solutions, and providing technical leadership while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture
Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems
Recommend development best practices for application development
Recommend and support development tools
Capture requirements and use cases
Deliver technical design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality
Partner with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, solution integration and on-boarding of mobile/SaaS/PaaS/web/desktop offerings
Work with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, Q/A and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features
Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms
Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning
Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems and share key learnings
Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole
Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
Coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies
Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE)
5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
Solid design and coding skills (Java, J2EE, PHP, Ruby, Perl, XML, REST, SOAP, JSON)
Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice (Java/J2EE)
Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
Strong knowledge of JBoss, Maven and Spring
Skilled in software development lifecycle processes
Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to product strategy to high level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation
Synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs, alternative sources (build / buy / partner) and complex data
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
Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones
Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment
High adaptability and flexibility
Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships
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
Preferred
Experience with frameworks like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF a plus
Experience with MySQL and ActiveMQ a plus
Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain highly desired
Experience with SCRUM, Agile and iterative approaches a plus
Benefits
Competitive compensation package
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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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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