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Intuit

Principal Engineer, App Foundations

san diego, CA

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Intuit lists this Principal Engineer, App Foundations opportunity in san diego, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Overview

Intuit's Consumer Group is responsible for two of the leading financial products in the country: TurboTax, which helps tens of millions of people file with confidence every tax season, and Credit Karma, which gives more than 130 million members a clear, personalized view of their financial health. Both products depend on shared, resilient application infrastructure to move fast without breaking trust, and that infrastructure is what App Foundations, part of Platform Foundations within Consumer Group, is responsible for.

We're investing in a culture of "builder" by fostering an environment where innovation, creativity, and bold thinking are encouraged. The "builder" mindset is necessary for us to accelerate our move toward AI-native experiences. This requires more builders who can rapidly apply AI and emerging technologies to solve our customers' problems - across TurboTax's tax filing experiences and Credit Karma's financial health platform alike.

Responsibilities

Overall Responsibilities

Drives velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company

Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture

Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems

Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment

Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outside of their primary area of ownership

Creates robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications

Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems

Knowledge of building AI-native applications

Guides the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies

Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of solutions

High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons

Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications

Team Collaboration

Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, development, and integration

Works with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to design, develop, test, and release features

Community

Contributes to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve the engineering community

Provides perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements

Qualifications

Technical Qualifications

Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders

8+ years of experience developing systems or software for large business environments

5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications

Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools, applying them to user experiences or backend solutions

Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python

Experience with at least one in each of the following: Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)

Back-end technologies like Java, TypeScript, Spring, Express (NodeJS)

Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS or GCP is highly desired

Prior experience working in teams that have built AI-native applications for 1+ years

BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience

Leadership Qualifications

Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Strong mentoring skills; able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people

Prefers working in a team and collaborates with other cross-functional partners

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment

Excellent communication skills; communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management, including executives

Self-starter attitude and the ability to make decisions independently

Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships

Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

San Diego $247,500 - $335,000

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Worksite address

san diego, CA, 92189, US

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