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# Staff Software Engineer, Fintech API

- **Company:** Intuit Inc.
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $202,500.0 - $274,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, QuickBooks (Software), Software Engineering, Openapi, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Enterprise Integration, Virtual Agents, Api Design, GPT, Api Management
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=225a58f9db63e910

## About the Role

* 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep API design and distributed systems experience at scale
 * Demonstrated Staff-level (or equivalent) technical leadership: driving cross-team architecture decisions and setting technical direction across multiple teams
 * Strong background in API platforms - OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, API lifecycle and developer portal tooling
 * Hands-on experience with AI agent tooling - MCP (Model Context Protocol), LLM tool/function calling, or agentic developer platforms (Claude, ChatGPT Actions)
 * Experience building CI/CD systems, codegen pipelines, or platform tooling that enforces contracts at scale
 * Familiarity with fintech domains (payments, lending, payroll, wallet) and the safety/compliance requirements of agent-initiated financial actions is a strong plus
 * Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build alignment across engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

## Description

Intuit's Fintech API team is rebuilding the API platform for a world where AI agents, not human developers, are the primary consumers of fintech capabilities. We're moving from hand-written OpenAPI specs and ad-hoc MCP wrappers to a model where every fintech capability is defined once as a Capability Spec, with OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, and MCP tools auto-generated and enforced at PR time. This work already powers the QuickBooks Connector on Claude and ChatGPT, with 40+ Fintech tools live in production and early signal from engaged invoicing and Capital loan customers., * Architect the Capability Spec framework - the single editable source of truth from which OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, MCP tool definitions, and portal docs are auto-generated

 * Drive consolidation of fragmented, team-specific API surfaces into the Unified Fintech API, a composable, agent-ready contract
 * Build CI/CD enforcement - PR gates, validation rules, drift detection - that blocks hand-edits to generated artifacts and keeps specs, code, and docs in sync
 * Build tooling to auto-generate Functional and Integration Skills, MCP tools, and client SDKs directly from Capability Specs
 * Set technical direction across the Fintech API and Agent-Ready Enabler teams; mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap decisions without relying on direct authority


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