Staff Software Engineer, Fintech API

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
Salary
$202,500–$274,000 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $238k
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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 174 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Fintech API

As a Staff Software Engineer, Fintech API, you will join the Fintech API team to build the next generation of the Unified Fintech API and Capability Spec authoring system. You will architect the Capability Spec framework as a single source of truth for auto-generating OpenAPI schemas, Skill manifests, and MCP tools while building CI/CD enforcement to ensure contract consistency. Your daily work involves consolidating fragmented API surfaces into agent-ready contracts and developing tooling for client SDKs and integration skills. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, REST design, schema-driven codegen, and AI agent tooling like Model Context Protocol or LLM function calling. You will solve the technical challenge of making financial capabilities safely and reliably invocable by autonomous agents, ensuring compliance across payments, lending, payroll, and wallet domains within a complex fintech ecosystem.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect the Capability Spec framework to serve as the single source of truth for auto-generating OpenAPI schemas and MCP tools.
  • Consolidate fragmented, team-specific API surfaces into a unified, composable, and agent-ready contract.
  • Build CI/CD enforcement mechanisms including PR gates and drift detection to ensure specs, code, and documentation remain in sync.
  • Develop tooling to auto-generate functional skills, MCP tools, and client SDKs directly from Capability Specs.
  • Set technical direction for the Fintech API and Agent-Ready Enabler teams across multiple engineering groups.
  • Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions and roadmap planning without direct authority.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep API design and distributed systems expertise at scale.
  • Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership in driving cross-team architecture decisions and setting technical direction.
  • Strong background in API platforms including OpenAPI/REST design, schema-driven codegen, and developer portal tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with AI agent tooling such as MCP, LLM tool calling, or agentic developer platforms.
  • Experience building CI/CD systems, codegen pipelines, or platform tooling that enforces contracts at scale.
  • Familiarity with fintech domains and the safety requirements of agent-initiated financial actions is a plus.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to build alignment across engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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