Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Payments Migration

Intuit

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On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
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$261,500–$353,500 / yr
Posted
53 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Payments Migration

The Principal Forward Deployed Engineer — Payments Migration joins the payments team to lead high-stakes technical engagements for strategic customers and partners. This role involves owning the end-to-end technical relationship for migrating live money movement from processors like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Square, and Adyen onto QuickBooks Payments. You will design and execute migration plans for payment data, stored tokens, and transaction history while co-building QB Payments and QB Invoicing into partner products. Key responsibilities include architecting multi-entity payment structures, managing complex reconciliation, and handling refunds, chargebacks, and deposit reconciliation. You must possess over 10 years of software engineering experience, deep fintech expertise, and the ability to build reusable migration tooling. The work focuses on solving critical technical challenges in payment token migration and ledger integration.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical relationship with strategic customers from initial discovery through migration cutover and stabilization.
  • Design and execute plans to migrate payment data, tokens, and transaction history from processors like Stripe and PayPal.
  • Act as the hands-on technical lead for strategic partners integrating QuickBooks Payments and Invoicing into their own products.
  • Architect multi-entity payment structures, complex reconciliations, and token migrations for high-volume live transactions.
  • Design specific workflows for refunds, chargebacks, deposit reconciliation, and cash flow timing.
  • Develop reusable migration tooling and playbooks to accelerate and de-risk subsequent customer migrations.
  • Serve as the technical escalation point to debug production edge cases across APIs, ledgers, and reconciliation layers.
  • Travel to customer and partner sites as needed to unblock critical migrations and integrations.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or customer/partner-facing technical role.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in payments and fintech with experience building against payment APIs.
  • Direct experience migrating payments to or from processors like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Square, or Adyen.
  • Working knowledge of multi-entity payment structures, complex reconciliation, and payment token migration.
  • Command of refunds, chargebacks, deposit reconciliation, cash flow implications, and integrating credit or financing products.
  • Strong communication skills to explain migration risk and tradeoffs to engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel to customer and partner sites as needed.
  • Experience building payment integrations from the platform or PSP side (preferred).
  • Familiarity with PCI compliance and tokenization standards, including network tokens (preferred).
  • Prior work on payments for multi-sided marketplaces or embedded finance products (preferred).

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