Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fintech Futures

Intuit

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Work type: On-site
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $220,500–$298,000 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fintech Futures

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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Fintech Futures team, you will shape the technical direction of how the organization participates in and influences the shift toward agentic money. You will identify and resolve cross-cutting technical problems regarding payment protocols, edge AI, and trust infrastructure while driving architectural evolution from validated concepts to shipped products. Your daily work involves setting technical standards for polyglot teams using Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript, as well as managing Kubernetes-based runtime architectures on AWS EKS. You will also design structured experiments with clear success metrics and communicate technical strategies to senior non-engineering stakeholders. This role focuses on the critical problem of defining next-generation fintech integration protocols, ensuring that systems for agentic payment settlement and on-device financial intelligence are scalable, secure, and compliant within a rapidly evolving industry landscape.

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Skills

AI Agent Orchestration Edge AI Distributed Systems Java Python TypeScript JavaScript Kubernetes AWS EKS Scalability Observability

What you'll do

Resolve complex technical problems involving 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 cross-team 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 manage structured experiments with clear hypotheses and success metrics to validate technical bets.
Establish architectural standards for polyglot teams across various programming languages and Kubernetes-based environments.

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
7+ years designing complex distributed systems or platforms.
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Track record setting technical direction for a sizable organization and driving architectural evolution across complex efforts.
Deep fluency with AI-native architecture and agent orchestration at a systems level.
Substantive expertise in payments/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.
Experience designing and running structured experiments (A/B, canary, or flagged rollouts).
Strong communication skills to present technical and strategic cases to senior non-engineering stakeholders.
Ability to mentor and influence both junior and peer-level engineers.
Experience actively shaping industry standards (preferred).
Track record 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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