Overview

Come join Intuit as a Principal Software Engineer!

What you'll bring

Technical Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area

• 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE)

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

• Solid design and coding skills (Java, J2EE, PHP, Ruby, Perl, XML, REST, SOAP, JSON)

• Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice (Java/J2EE)

• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services

• Strong knowledge of JBoss, Maven and Spring

• Skilled in software development lifecycle processes. Experience with SCRUM, Agile and iterative approaches a plus

• Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to product strategy to high level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation

• Synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs, alternative sources (build / buy / partner) and complex data

• Experience with frameworks like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF a plus

• Experience with MySQL and ActiveMQ a plus

• Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain highly desired

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

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

• 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

How you will lead

• Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture

• Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems

• Recommend development best practices for application development

• Recommend and support development tools

• Capture requirements and use cases

• Deliver technical design and 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

• Work with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, Q/A and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features

• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms

• Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning

• Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems and share key learnings

• Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering

• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole

• Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs

• Coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies

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

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.