Intuit
Staff Software Engineer
$202K–$274K
Mountain View, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
New York, New York - Experience
- 8+ years building systems and services for large-scale business environments; 5+ years designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Leads the design and operation of scalable payroll and workforce systems, shipping production AI and agentic workflows while providing hands-on technical leadership.
What you'll do
- Own architecture, reliability, performance, and operational practices for high-volume distributed services.
- Build secure agentic workflows and AI/ML capabilities, including evaluation, guardrails, and tool/API integrations.
- Write and review code, lead technical planning, resolve production issues, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building systems and services for large-scale business environments; Java and Spring Boot.
- 5+ years designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems.
- Production experience shipping AI/ML features, including LLM applications and agentic systems, and evaluating their behavior.
- Strong distributed systems, database, software design, leadership, and communication skills; experience with REST, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, or other compliance-sensitive domains.
- Experience with workflow engines such as Temporal or Step Functions.
Pay
Mountain View: $202,500 - $274,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, React/JavaScript, REST, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
AI focus
Build production AI/ML features and agentic workflows, including LLM tool/API integrations, guardrails, and evaluation; apply GenAI tools to accelerate engineering.
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