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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Intuit Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $220,500.0 - $298,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, Kubernetes, Information Technology, AWS EKS - **Published:** September 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://intuit.avature.net/externalCareers/JobApplication?pipelineId=23007 ## About the Role * 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments, with 7+ years designing complex distributed systems or platforms. * Track record setting technical direction for a sizable organization and driving architectural evolution across highly complex, interdependent efforts. * Deep fluency with AI-native architecture and agent orchestration at a systems level. * Judgment distinguishing durable architectural bets from premature optimization, in a portfolio that evolves as the industry does. * Strong external-facing communication - comfortable making the technical and strategic case to senior non-engineering stakeholders. * Substantive expertise spanning multiple areas of the agentic money space - payments/settlement, edge AI, and identity/trust - credible enough to make calls across whatever mix of capability areas the team is currently pursuing. * Working fluency across Intuit's standard engineering stack (Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript) sufficient to set architectural standards for polyglot teams, without needing to be the deepest specialist in any single language. * Fluency with Kubernetes-based runtime architecture (e.g. AWS EKS) at an organizational level - setting standards for how services across multiple bets are deployed, scaled, and operated. * Demonstrated experience designing and running structured experiments (A/B, canary, or flagged rollouts) to validate technical bets with evidence rather than intuition, and instilling that discipline in the teams around you. * BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. TEAM & LEADERSHIP SKILLS * Excellent communication skills - clear, succinct, and persuasive with employees, customers, and management, including executives. * Strong mentoring skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and develop both junior and peer-level engineers. * Self-starter attitude with the ability to make decisions independently in a highly matrixed environment. * Demonstrated ability to drive results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships. * Demonstrated ability to work effectively with distributed teams, including across time zones., * Experience actively shaping industry standards, not just consuming them. * Track record building a technical organization from near-zero headcount. * Track record spanning both cloud-side agentic infrastructure and edge/on-device AI systems. ## Description At Senior Staff Engineer, you shape the technical direction of how Intuit participates in - and influences - the platform shift to agentic money. The window to do this is real but finite: once the industry's protocols finalize, they either embed Intuit's verified financial context and edge AI capability as first-class citizens, or they route around them. Your job is ensuring the former., What You'll Do * Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical problems with genuinely unclear definitions - including which emerging standards to commit to and which to stay agnostic across, spanning payment protocols, edge AI, and trust infrastructure. * Set technical direction across the team's active capability areas, driving architectural evolution as individual efforts mature from validated concept toward shipped product. * Distinguish foundational decisions that need deliberate, cross-team planning from those suited to fast, reversible experimentation, especially where one capability underpins several others. * Own strategic viability at every customer-facing deliverable, ensuring what the team produces is defensible against Intuit's competitive position, not just technically impressive. * Represent the team's technical strategy to SLT, BD, Legal/Compliance, and domain product leadership, translating engineering proof points into the case for organizational investment and standards influence. * Build an experimentation mindset into how the team validates bets - designing solutions to run behind experiment flags, with clear hypotheses, success metrics, and kill criteria defined before code is written, so a bet's outcome is a measured result, not a subjective call. ## Related Videos - [Building the Next Generation of Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100186-building-the-next-generation-of-software) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Do TypeScript without TypeScript](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/327-do-typescript-without-typescript) - [Hosting a modern justice system](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/332-hosting-a-modern-justice-system) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)