Staff Software Engineer

Come join the QuickBooks Capital & Lending platform team as a Staff Software Engineer (Backend). You will join an innovative and passionate team of engineers using cutting edge technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS, Elastic Search, Kafka, to build enterprise scale software for our QuickBooks customers. We are looking for an engineer with a background in back-end web technologies (Java/Kotlin, Spring, REST services, etc.)

Responsibilities

Architecting and developing online web applications, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POCs)

Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning

Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems

Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding. Rest focused on System design, operational excellence and coaching/mentoring junior engineers.

Generate technical documentation and PowerPoint presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users

Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches

Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results

Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps

Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

8+ years experience designing and developing online SaaS applications (Backend).

Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader

BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience

Expertise with the following: Java/J2EE, SQL, AWS and other backend development technologies. Proficient with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude or Codex)

Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

5+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP

Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Expertise in the Software design/architecture process

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development

Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent

Experience in handling On-call responsibilities & production incidents for large scale, high throughput SaaS applications. Be a proponent of building systems for performance and scale.

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 (https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/) ). 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:

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.