Senior Staff Software Engineer

Company Overview

Job Overview

Come join the "Virtual Expert Platform(VEP) team" as a "Senior Staff Software Engineer". The Virtual Expert Platform (VEP) manages configurable, reusable capabilities that connect customers and small businesses to all kinds of expertise.

Responsibilities

• Deliver significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture.
• Lead an engineering team that builds and supports amazing products providing innovative solutions to challenging programming and design problems
• Roughly 70 - 80% hands on coding
• Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems.
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health
• Able to influence, advocate and propose experience and workflow designs while collaborating with Product Managers and Experience Designers
• Implement highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality.
• Partner with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, solution integration and on-boarding of mobile/SaaS/PaaS/web/desktop offerings.
• Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning.
• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole.
• Coach and mentor other engineers in the areas of engineering excellence, process and methodologies
• Team/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.
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment.
• High adaptability and flexibility.
• 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.
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant advanced degree is mandatory
• Technology Architecture and product engineering expertise with a minimum of 10 years of work experience, with at least 3 years in SaaS, Public Cloud and with a proven track record in executing complex projects.
• 5+ years of experience in developing complex, distributed, scalable API-based and event driven systems, externalizations of APIs and delivery of headless products.
• Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice (Java/J2EE)
• Practical experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos etc.
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS and serverless applications development experience is highly desired)
• Solid design and coding skills (Node, Java, Spring, Maven/Gradle, REST, GraphQL, JSON, messaging technologies - Kafka, Pulsar, ActiveMQ).
• Experience in UI frameworks like React, Backbone, Angular is desirable.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing and CI/CD.
• Strong experience with Database design (SQL, NoSQL). Knowledge of data analytics/BI is a plus.
• Experience in Capability based planning to execution.
• Excellent communication skills with experience in C level stakeholder management. The position requires working closely with other architects, business teams, and product teams.