Principal Software Engineer

Intuit

Intuit

Software Engineering
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 242k-327,500 / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 5, 2025

Principal Software Engineer

Category Software Engineering Location San Diego, California Job ID 2025-69271

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Our formula for innovation begins with agile, cross-functional teams that welcome diverse perspectives and embrace collaboration. Inspirational working environments help spark fresh ideas, with state-of-the-art technology and creative workspaces that allow our team to decide how they want to work. And our shared commitment to make a meaningful impact for our customers helps us push the boundaries of technology to uncover new possibilities. If you have a commitment to excellence and a passion for innovation, come join our team.

Responsibilities

  • 50% hands-on coding: Designing and developing web applications, backendservices, build and test automation, prototyping, data visualization
  • Automate everything, then do whatever else it takes to make sure our systems are bulletproof and super-fast
  • Leading and mentoring more junior engineers, making sure to bring others along for the journey
  • Being willing to push aside ego in exchange for pushing the boundaries of what we can build together

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 $242,000.00 - 327,500.00.

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.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 12+ years of experience developing enterprise applications and services
  • Experience in the practical application/deployment of ML model or Generative AI in the day to day as a developer and in customer-facing applications
  • Java, Spring, JavaScript/AJAX, HTML/DOM, CSS, Python, NoSQL Technologies like Cassandra
  • Experience creating applications that operate in AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Experience running services using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with web application development using RESTful services, Jersey Framework and JAX-RS
  • Mastery of software development using GitHub
  • Good understanding of MVC patterns like React JS
  • Hands on experience creating responsive web applications using modern CSS frameworks like Bootstrap
  • Knowledge of software development methodologies and practices such as

Agile/Iterative development, test-driven development

  • Reviewable open-source contributions would be a plus

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 $242,000 - 327,500. 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 fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.