Senior Staff Software Engineer

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
Salary
$220,500–$298,500 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $260k
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This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $176,812–$236,840 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 174 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $202,500–$274,000 across 152 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fintech Futures - Senior Staff Software Engineer joins the engineering team to define and validate next-generation fintech integration protocols. This role focuses on agentic payment settlement, edge AI, and verifiable financial trust to prepare for a shift toward autonomous transaction systems. You will resolve cross-cutting technical problems, set architectural direction across active capability areas, and translate engineering proof points into strategic cases for non-engineering stakeholders. The work involves building production-grade systems that ensure scalability, security, and reliability while navigating complex payment protocols and identity infrastructure. Required skills include deep fluency in AI-native architecture, agent orchestration, and Kubernetes-based runtime environments like AWS EKS. You will utilize a polyglot stack including Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript to establish standards for distributed systems. The role requires designing structured experiments to validate technical bets within the evolving agentic money landscape.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Resolve cross-cutting technical problems regarding emerging standards in payment protocols, edge AI, and trust infrastructure.
  • Set the technical direction and drive architectural evolution for products moving from concepts to production.
  • Distinguish between foundational decisions requiring long-term planning and those suitable for rapid experimentation.
  • Ensure all customer-facing deliverables are strategically viable and defensible against Intuit's competitive position.
  • Present technical strategies and engineering proof points to senior leadership, legal, and compliance teams.
  • Design and implement a structured experimentation framework with clear metrics and success criteria for technical bets.
  • Establish architectural standards for polyglot teams across various programming languages and Kubernetes-based infrastructures.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience developing software for large business environments and 7+ years designing complex distributed systems or platforms.
  • Track record of setting technical direction for a sizable organization and driving architectural evolution across complex, interdependent efforts.
  • Deep fluency with AI-native architecture and agent orchestration at a systems level.
  • Substantive expertise in payment settlement, edge AI, and identity/trust infrastructure.
  • Working fluency in Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript to set standards for polyglot teams.
  • Fluency with Kubernetes-based runtime architecture (e.g., AWS EKS) at an organizational level.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and running structured experiments (A/B, canary, or flagged rollouts) to validate technical bets.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience actively shaping industry standards (preferred).
  • Track record of building a technical organization from near-zero headcount (preferred).
  • Track record spanning both cloud-side agentic infrastructure and edge/on-device AI systems (preferred).

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