Staff Software Engineer
Intuit
Staff Software Engineer
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
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us build and evolve the core backend systems that power our next-generation tax platform. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of high-scale backend engineering, and language runtime integration.
You will work on the systems that underpin our business-critical tax calculation engines, contributing to the scalability, reliability, and performance of services that support critical tax logic execution.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend systems that support our tax development language and runtime.
- Contribute to the modernization and integration of legacy systems with modern runtimes (e.g., JVM, CLR).
- Implement performance-critical components using Java and C++ in a distributed, service-oriented architecture.
- Collaborate with compiler/runtime engineers and AI/ML teams to support intelligent language tooling.
- Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence in production environments.
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend or systems-level software development.
- Proven experience building scalable, distributed backend systems in production environments.
- Strong programming skills in Java, C# and/or C++.
- Low-level experience with JVM, CLR, or other language runtime environments.
- Solid understanding of performance optimization, multithreading, memory management, and networking.
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and DevOps best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to compiler or interpreter internals is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of language tooling, custom DSLs, or domain-specific platforms is a bonus.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset.