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About the job

As Intuit expands its footprint in the Mid-Market and Enterprise segments, we're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Sandbox capabilities across Intuit products.

You'll play a key technical lead role in building a scalable, intelligent Sandbox platform that enables customers, partners, and developers to safely explore, test, and experience Intuit's ecosystem. You'll leverage AI, modern cloud technologies, and innovative engineering frameworks to solve complex platform challenges and accelerate innovation across Intuit's growing enterprise ecosystem.

This is an opportunity to shape foundational platform capabilities, influence architecture across teams, and drive meaningful impact as Intuit scales its Mid-Market and Enterprise offerings.

Responsibilities

8+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering scalable software systems in large-scale enterprise environments.

5+ years of experience architecting complex distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, or enterprise business applications.

Strong hands-on backend engineering experience, with expertise in Java, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Node.js/Express, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, API design, microservices, data management, performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.

Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP, with an understanding of cloud infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.

Experience leveraging AI technologies and frameworks such as Large Language Models (LLMs), LangChain, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Python, or prompt engineering to build intelligent applications and platform capabilities.

Experience designing extensible platforms, developer tools, or environments that enable safe experimentation, testing, and integration is highly desirable.

Lead the design and delivery of foundational Sandbox capabilities that enable customers and partners to safely explore, test, and experience Intuit products.

Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal platform capabilities spanning multiple Intuit products and engineering teams.

Architect and implement robust, scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions, balancing immediate business priorities with long-term extensibility and reliability.

Identify opportunities to leverage AI to build intelligent Sandbox experiences, automate complex workflows, and accelerate platform innovation.

Establish evaluation strategies and success metrics for AI-powered capabilities, ensuring measurable improvements in customer experience, accuracy, and reliability.

Partner with Product Management and cross-functional teams to understand customer behaviors, identify unmet needs, and translate complex business requirements into durable technical solutions.

Drive engineering velocity by simplifying architecture, eliminating technical bottlenecks, and accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes.

Influence technical priorities and architectural decisions across teams, resolving complex dependencies and driving alignment on end-to-end solutions.

Establish and champion engineering best practices in code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

Lead design and delivery of foundational Sandbox capabilities that enable customers and partners to safely explore, test, and experience Intuit products.

Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal platform capabilities spanning multiple Intuit products and engineering teams.

Design and implement robust, scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions, balancing immediate business priorities with long-term extensibility and reliability.

Identify opportunities to leverage AI to build intelligent Sandbox experiences, automate complex workflows, and accelerate platform innovation.

Establish evaluation strategies and success metrics for AI-powered capabilities, ensuring measurable improvements in customer experience, accuracy, and reliability.

Partner with Product Management and cross-functional teams to understand customer behaviors, identify unmet needs, and translate complex business requirements into durable technical solutions.

Drive engineering velocity by simplifying architecture, eliminating technical bottlenecks, and accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes.

Influence technical priorities and architectural decisions across teams, resolving complex dependencies and driving alignment on end-to-end solutions.

Champion engineering best practices in code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence.

Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture reviews, and knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

Demonstrate a boundaryless mindset by taking ownership of complex challenges and contributing to solutions beyond immediate team responsibilities.

Champion continuous learning, experimentation, and the adoption of emerging technologies to solve meaningful customer and platform challenges.

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: Mountain View $202,500 - $274,000