Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Intuit

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Work type: On-site
Location: Mountain View, CA
Salary: $220,500–$298,500 / yr
Posted: 11 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 255 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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The Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend will join a dynamic team to drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end across multiple architecture layers. The role involves architecting and developing scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions to solve critical customer problems. Key responsibilities include providing best practices for platform development, mentoring junior engineers, and launching AI integrations into production while evaluating their impact on performance. The candidate must possess proficiency in Java, relational database design, and SQL or NoSQL analytics. Technical requirements include experience with microservices, container technologies like Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. The role specifically addresses the challenge of integrating functional AI models using LLM prompting and AutoML modeling within a cloud computing and utility computing domain to enhance software applications and user satisfaction.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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Skills

Java AI LLM Kubernetes Microservices SQL NoSQL CI/CD TDD Cloud Computing Relational Database Design AutoML Algorithms Design Patterns

What you'll do

Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end across multiple layers of architecture.
Architect and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions to solve critical customer problems.
Proactively identify and integrate AI technology to enhance software applications.
Launch AI integrations in production and evaluate their impact on performance and user satisfaction using metrics.
Provide recommendations and best practices for application development, platform development, and developer tools.
Coach and mentor junior engineers on software engineering best practices and leveraging AI for applications.
Experiment with and apply cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to the development process.

What we're looking for

BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience.
10+ years of total experience delivering enterprise-class applications.
Proficiency in mid-tier languages like Java and solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
Experience with Relational Database Design, SQL, NoSQL, and analytics.
Practical experience developing applications using microservices, container technologies, and systems like Kubernetes or Mesos.
Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments or utility computing domains.
Proficient in building or integrating functional AI models using techniques such as LLM prompting and AutoML modeling.
Experience with test automation including TDD, unit, integration, functional, and performance testing.

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