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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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Staff Software Engineer - Credit Karma joins the Portals team to own the technical vision and long-term viability of a platform that determines real-time personalized content for members based on their unique financial profiles. This high-leverage role involves evolving the targeting engine's rules and logic, integrating GenAI and machine learning for advanced personalization, and building reusable tools and testing infrastructure to empower other product teams. The candidate will manage complex technical initiatives, address technical debt, and mentor senior engineers through design reviews. Required skills include proficiency in TypeScript, Java, or Scala, along with expertise in microservices architecture, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and relational or NoSQL databases. Experience with GraphQL and Node.js is preferred. The role focuses on solving the challenge of delivering personalized financial offers at millisecond-level response times across a complex system.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 925 postings across 71 companies.
Define the technical vision and long-term strategy for the real-time content personalization platform.
Design and architect a scalable rules engine to deliver personalized content with millisecond response times.
Integrate Generative AI and machine learning models into the platform for advanced content selection.
Lead high-impact technical initiatives by managing complex dependencies and risks across multiple systems.
Build reusable tools, testing infrastructure, and workflows to increase deployment speed for other teams.
Conduct technical design reviews and provide actionable feedback to mentor senior engineers.
Identify and resolve systemic technical debt and tooling deficiencies to improve overall team productivity.
What we're looking for
7+ years of experience delivering enterprise-class applications with a focus on backend development, API design, and client/server contracts.
Proficiency in mid-tier and backend functional languages including TypeScript, Java, and/or Scala.
Deep expertise in scalable microservices architecture, messaging patterns, container management (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Strong experience with relational database schema design, NoSQL, ORM concepts, and high-volume, low-latency data pipelining.
Proficiency in integrating and evaluating functional AI models like LLM prompting and personalization algorithms in production.
Solid foundation in OOP, algorithms, web application internals, test automation (TDD), and CI/CD best practices.
BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with SaaS platforms, large-scale financial systems, GraphQL, Node.js, or defining long-term technical strategies (preferred).