Senior Staff Software Engineer Bangalore, India
Intuit
Senior 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
Intuit is expanding its mobile and global footprint with a full suite of products and services that are revolutionizing the industry. Utilizing design for delight and lean startup methodologies, our entrepreneurial employees have brought more than 250 innovations to market – from QuickBooks®, and TurboTax®, to Mailchimp, Credit Karma, big data, cloud (SaaS, PaaS) and mobile apps. The breadth and depth of these customer-driven innovations mean limitless opportunities for you to turn your ingenious ideas into reality at Intuit.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across a number of interdependent engineering teams, working closely with product management and design. Drive complex initiatives that span across multiple organizations. Contribute to Intuit-wide architecture decisions.
- Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems. Ensure key non-functional requirements are met (including security, availability, performance, scale, quality, etc.)
- Influence the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems. Drive system and platform thinking within development teams.
- Research, evaluate, and implement state-of-the-art technology (including open source, third party, etc.).
- Communicate architectural and design options, educating development teams, business users, and senior leadership.
- Coach and mentor other engineers in process, strategy and business alignment.
- Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements .
- Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning.
- Balance long vs short - think strategically. Have a bias towards working code and experimentation mindset. Encourage an experimentation mindset with POCs.
- Drive strategic architecture planning to evolve technology stacks for developer velocity improvement and incremental customer values.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience. Design/architecture experience preferred.
- 12+ years’ experience designing and leading design for web, software or mobile applications.
- Boundaryless leadership experience: Applying the nuances of influencing based on the situation, knowing when to push and when to ease, driving through designs, ideas, and roadmaps.
- Deep understanding of design principles, architecture best practices.
- Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to present to all levels of leadership, including executives.
- Expertise with modern technology stacks, microservices, public cloud and programming languages: iOS and Android development using Swift and Kotlin, Graphql, REST, JavaScript, CSS, React, Java, serverless technologies, distributed systems, SDLC/MDLC, data taxonomy and persistence technologies, security, DevOps, open source.
- Demonstrate the ability to influence the direction and tech strategy that drives the significant improvement in technology stack and generate customer/business values
- Expertise at web UI technology, foundational web UI framework with strong knowledge of mobile native or vice versa.
- Operation, engineering excellence: UI automation framework, testing strategy, client performance analysis and solutions to provide fast, highly available, high quality client experiences
- Demonstrate the ability to incorporate industry best practices into the solution design and teach the large teams to adopt the best practices.
Team/Leadership Qualifications
- 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 lead and guide with large teams across multiple BUs/FGs.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment.
- 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.
- Strategic thinking, experimentation mindset and data driven decisions, customer obsession.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. 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. The expected base pay range for this position is: