Senior Staff Risk Engineer

Intuit

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Mountain View, CA · New York, NY Posted 20 days ago $220,500–$298,500 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intuit Fintech’s Risk Platform team, you will lead the technical vision and architecture for systems that protect millions of customers from fraud while ensuring seamless financial experiences. Your daily work involves designing large-scale distributed systems with AI/GenAI capabilities to minimize risk loss rates and optimize customer approval rates, all while maintaining compliance with evolving financial regulations. You will use technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, React, AWS, and Python for data pipelines, requiring deep expertise in backend and frontend development, cloud platforms, and machine learning systems. This role demands strategic thinking and the ability to influence across engineering, product, data science, and executive teams to drive business metrics like fraud loss rate reduction and customer approval rates.

Skills

AWS Java Spring Boot React Python SQL Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AI/ML GenAI A/B Testing Scalability Reliability Observability Security Cloud Platforms Data Pipelines Streaming Frameworks

What you'll do

  • Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the Fintech Risk Platform.
  • Lead design of end-to-end risk decisioning systems spanning transaction processing to dispute handling.
  • Establish real-time and batch risk pipelines unifying signals across the ecosystem for low-latency decisions.
  • Design platforms operating at extreme scale, handling billions of transactions with sub-second risk decisions.
  • Champion integration of advanced ML models into risk workflows for fraud detection and identity assessment.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience building and scaling complex distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in backend systems (Java, Spring Boot) and frontend technologies (React).
  • Proven track record of technical leadership in large-scale financial or risk/fraud systems.
  • Strong experience with AI/ML systems in production for real-time decisioning.
  • Expertise in risk analytics, fraud detection strategies, and Fintech compliance requirements.
  • Proficiency in data technologies including Python, SQL, and streaming frameworks.
  • Exceptional ability to align technical decisions across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Market check

Salary context

This $220,500–$298,500 range sits above 95% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$130,000–$224,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,849–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 142 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $202,500–$274,000 across 131 roles with salary data.

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