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Serving over 50 million customers worldwide, we are redefining how individuals and businesses manage money.\nIntuit Fintech, one of the company’s fastest growing and most strategic business units, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the long term technology vision and architecture of the Fintech Risk Platform.\nThis role sits at the center of trillion-dollar money movement, where you will design and drive systems that protect customers, minimize fraud, reduce churn, and optimize risk loss rates-all while enabling seamless financial experiences. You will operate at the intersection of risk intelligence, large-scale distributed systems, AI/GenAI, and financial infrastructure, shaping platforms that must be highly reliable, explainable, and globally scalable.\nThis is a company wide technical leadership role requiring deep expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across engineering, product, data science, compliance, and executive stakeholders.\nResponsibilities\nTechnology Vision & Strategy\nDefine and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the Fintech Risk Platform, aligning with Intuit’s broader financial ecosystem strategy.\n\nArchitect systems capable of supporting $1T+ annual money movement with industry-leading availability, latency, and security guarantees.\n\nEstablish a forward-looking roadmap for risk intelligence, leveraging AI/ML and GenAI to evolve from reactive fraud detection to proactive risk prevention and autonomous decisioning.\n\nBalance risk mitigation, customer experience, and growth, ensuring optimal trade-offs between fraud prevention, false positives, and customer friction.\n\nSystem Architecture & Cross-Functional Design\nLead the design of end-to-end risk decisioning systems, spanning transaction processing, identity verification, fraud detection, compliance, and dispute handling.\n\nDrive cross-functional architecture across payments, ledgers, identity, analytics, and customer platforms to ensure cohesive and scalable solutions.\n\nEstablish real-time and batch risk pipelines that unify signals across the ecosystem to deliver consistent, low-latency decisions.\n\nEnsure systems are auditable, explainable, and compliant with evolving financial regulations.\n\nBuilding High-Impact, Planet-Scale Systems\nDesign and oversee platforms that operate at extreme scale, handling billions of transactions with sub-second risk decisions.\n\nLead the development of resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems with strong consistency guarantees for financial correctness.\n\nDrive innovations in risk scoring, anomaly detection, and behavioral modeling to significantly reduce fraud and abuse.\n\nOptimize systems to reduce fraud loss rate, minimize customer friction, and increase approval rates for good transactions.\n\nAI/ML & Data-Driven Risk Intelligence\nChampion the integration of advanced ML models and GenAI into risk workflows, including:\nFraud detection and classification\n\nIdentity risk assessment\n\nAdaptive policy generation\n\nExplainable AI for compliance and auditability\n\nDefine best practices for model lifecycle management, experimentation, and real-time inference at scale.\n\nPartner with data science teams to translate models into production-grade, scalable systems.\n\nBusiness Impact & Metrics Ownership\nOwn and influence key business metrics, including:\nFraud loss rate reduction\n\nFalse positive rate / customer friction\n\nCustomer churn due to risk decisions\n\nApproval rates and revenue protection\n\nEstablish measurement frameworks, experimentation strategies (A/B testing), and executive dashboards to guide decision-making.\n\nContinuously refine systems to maximize trust while enabling growth.\n\nTechnical Leadership & Influence\nAct as a technical authority across multiple organizations, influencing architecture, design standards, and engineering practices.\n\nLead and mentor senior and staff engineers, raising the overall technical bar across the organization.\n\nDrive engineering excellence in scalability, reliability, observability, and security.\n\nPartner with executives and cross-functional leaders to align technology investments with business priorities.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.\n\n12+ years of experience building and scaling complex distributed systems, with a strong track record of technical leadership.\n\nProven experience architecting large-scale financial systems, payment platforms, or risk/fraud systems.\n\nDeep expertise in:\nBackend systems (Java, Spring Boot, or equivalent)\n\nFrontend technologies (React or modern frameworks)\n\nCloud platforms (AWS preferred) and distributed architectures\n\nStrong experience with AI/ML systems in production, including real-time decisioning and model integration.\n\nDemonstrated ability to design systems operating at extreme scale (billions of transactions, low-latency decisioning).\n\nExpertise in risk analytics, fraud detection strategies, and compliance requirements in Fintech.\n\nProficiency in data technologies (Python, SQL, data pipelines, streaming frameworks).\n\nExceptional ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders.\n\nStrong business acumen with the ability to connect technical decisions to financial outcomes and customer impact.\n\nIntuit 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. 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