Senior software engineer - Data Platform

Overview ------------

Join the Data Capabilities team as a Senior Software Engineer on Intuit's Data Platform. We're using data in groundbreaking ways to uncover customer insights, personalize customer experiences through AI/ML, and provide a unified customer view across all Intuit products.

As a Senior engineer, you'll operate as a technical leader — setting the direction for how we build event-driven, real-time data services at scale, mentoring engineers across teams, and partnering with data architects and senior leadership to shape our technology roadmap.

You'll be hands-on with core technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, DynamoDB, and S3, while driving engineering excellence across testing, CI/CD, performance, and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop web services that make big data available in real-time for in-product applications.
• Work with data architects to ensure that Event Driven solutions are aligned with company-wide technology directions.
• Lead fast moving development teams using agile methodologies.
• Lead by example, demonstrating best practices for unit testing, CI/CD, performance testing, capacity planning, documentation, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Communicate progress across organizations and levels from individual contributor to senior executive.
• Identify and clarify the critical few issues that need action and drive appropriate decisions and actions.
• Communicate results clearly and in actionable form.
• Serve as technical “go to” person for our core technologies – Kubernetes, Kafka, DynamoDB, S3, and springboot.
• Demonstrate strong implementation aptitude to translate objectives into a scalable solution to meet the needs of the end customer while meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate commitment to your professional development by attending conferences, taking classes, giving technical presentations, and participating in developer communities inside and outside of Intuit.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science.
• MS Preferred.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and distributed systems.
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance and schema design.
• 5+ years of strong Object Oriented Programming (Java, Scala, or Python) 5+ years of hands-on Software Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience integrating technical processes and business outcomes – specifically: data and process analysis, data quality metrics/monitoring, data architecture, developing policies/standards & supporting processes.
• Strong project leadership experience, including being a technical lead for multiple complex software development projects using agile methodologies.
• Experience with Kafka, Spark, Kafka, DynamoDB and AWS is a plus.
• 3+ years working with Cloud Technologies.
• Experience with various offerings from AWS, including S3, EMR, Dynamo, Networking is a plus.
• History of contributing to open source projects is a plus.
• 5+ years DevOps experience including configuration, optimization, backup, high reliability, monitoring and systems version control.
• Track record working with data from multiple sources – willingness to dig-in and understand the data and to leverage creative thinking and problem-solving.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including business writing and presentations.
• Ability to communicate objectives, plans, status and results clearly, focusing on critical few key points.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix environment, ability to influence at all levels, and build strong relationships.
• Knowledge of enacting service level agreements and the appropriate escalation and communication plans to maintain them.
• 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 $171,000 - $231,500