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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Fintech Agentic AI - **Company:** Intuit Inc. - **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States - **Salary:** $261,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Integrated Architecture Framework, QuickBooks (Software), Software Engineering, Openapi, Information Technology, Virtual Agents, GPT - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B678A03E7AC645CAB21CEC02269FFF45/job/ ## About the Role * 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning technology strategy for a domain (not just executing within one) * Demonstrated Principal-level leadership: setting multi-year technical vision and strategy across multiple teams or a company-wide initiative, with technology decisions that carry long-term consequences for Intuit * Deep background in API platforms and agent-readiness infrastructure - OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, MCP and agentic tool-calling, and repo-level contribution tooling (dependency graphs, agent-driven testing, contribution readiness standards) * Experience defining architecture that integrates across domain boundaries - not just within a single team's or org's surface * Experience driving company-wide technical standards or platform strategy that other orgs adopt, ideally with external visibility (publications, conference talks, patents, or industry standards contributions) * Strong grounding in fintech domains (payments, lending, payroll, wallet) and the safety/compliance requirements of agent-initiated financial actions and agent-authored code * Track record of developing technical leaders - mentoring Staff/Sr Staff engineers and actively participating in calibration, hiring, and talent review processes * Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build alignment with company leadership, engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders, and to influence outside direct authority * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience ## Description Intuit's Fintech Agentic AI program rests on two bets: making every fintech capability safely invocable by customer-facing agents, and making Fintech's codebases legible and safe for coding agents to contribute to (Repo & Agent Contribution Readiness - the Repo Standard, cross-repo dependency graphs, and agent-authored PR pipelines). This already powers the QuickBooks Connector on Claude and ChatGPT, and our own Intuit Intelligence capability., We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to own the multi-year technology vision and strategy for agent-readiness across Fintech - both bets, end to end. This is domain ownership: the architecture underlying capability exposure and repo contribution readiness must integrate cleanly with each other and with adjacent Intuit platforms, and must align with Intuit's company-wide technology strategy, not just Fintech's roadmap. This role solves the hard, ambiguous problems no one has assigned yet, sets principled technology direction with multi-year consequences, and represents Intuit's agent-readiness approach both internally across orgs and externally in the industry., * Own the multi-year technology vision and strategy for Fintech's agent-readiness domain - capability exposure and repo contribution readiness as one integrated architecture, aligned with Intuit's company-wide platform and AI strategy * Solve end-to-end, hard problems that span both efforts and fill gaps no team currently owns: the seams between capability-level agent readiness (Capability Spec, Unified Fintech API, MCP tools) and repo-level agent readiness (dependency mapping, agent-authored PRs, agent-driven testing) * Champion capability and standard reuse across Fintech and adjacent Intuit domains, driving clarity of ownership so agent-readiness investments compound instead of fragmenting again * Make technology decisions steeped in clear, durable principles with long-term impact to Intuit - guiding teams on which decisions are one-way vs. two-way doors, unblocking through fast, well-documented calls rather than long debates * Drive and guide work spanning multiple teams (Fintech API, Agent-Ready Enabler, and dependent teams outside the org) developing solutions new to Intuit or to the industry - setting technical direction other Staff and Sr Staff engineers execute against * Represent Intuit's fintech agent-readiness strategy to org and company leadership, Product, and Compliance; contribute externally through publications, conference talks, or industry standards work on agentic protocols and repo-contribution safety * Actively invest in talent - mentoring and calibrating Staff/Sr Staff engineers, raising the technical bar across the domain, and building the pipeline of technical leaders who can carry this vision forward ## Related Videos - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [For the REST of us: API First and Conway’s Law](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1932-for-the-rest-of-us-api-first-and-conway-s-law) - [Guiding Agentic AI with Vue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2033-guiding-agentic-ai-with-vue) - [Building the Next Generation of Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100186-building-the-next-generation-of-software) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [OpenAPI meets OpenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1150-openapi-meets-openai) ## Related Articles - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [The Overflow: AI and Agentic Coding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/721-the-overflow-ai-and-agentic-coding) - [Stephan Gillich - Bringing AI Everywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/489-stephan-gillich-bringing-ai-everywhere) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai)