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We are leveraging big data technologies to gain new insights into our customer experiences, building data frameworks, ingestion pipelines and tools. Some of the technologies we are leveraging include Google Cloud, SPARK, Flink and AWS Big Data Systems.\nAs a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader and domain expert across multiple teams, responsible for multiple capabilities or sections of a composite application. This role involves applying master level software engineering and industry best practices to design, implement, and support software products and services, leading complex projects. You will participate in the entire product lifecycle for data, software products, and services that are broad in scope and complexity, applying a full understanding of software engineering methodologies and industry best practices for data products. You will utilize specialized knowledge to design, develop, and maintain Intuit’s data solutions.\nThis is an individual contributor level role with no direct reports or managerial duties. You will typically drive work across multiple scrum teams (10 to 35 engineers), influencing technology and product direction and making localized decisions that balance short-term goals with long-term business impact. You will act as a role-blended engineer, proactively identifying and sizing growth opportunities, and partnering closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to ideate, test, and validate hypotheses using rapid experimentation.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership & Execution\n70-85% hands-on development in all phases of the software life cycle.\n\nRapidly fix bugs and solve problems, and troubleshoot issues, defining ongoing solutions. Expertly diagnose and resolve complex, cross-capability issues.\n\nLead, estimate work for initiatives Create technical design specifications and implement data models\n\nGrowth & Product Mindset\nUnderstand customer behavior, funnel metrics, and business levers, ensuring every technical investment drives measurable impact.\n\nDemonstrate a deep understanding of current technology trends and best practices. You will leverage expertise in end-to-end system design using a mindset of 5 pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization), creating and promoting standards and guiding teams to balance long and short outcomes.\n\nActively stay abreast of industry best practices, share learnings, experiment, and apply cutting-edge technologies while proactively identifying opportunities to enhance software applications with AI technology.\n\nIntroduce new approaches and techniques rooted in the latest industry trends and best practices that alter projects' trajectories. Create reusable and self-serve libraries/tools and leverage Intuit technology.\n\nMentorship & Cross-Functional Collaboration\nRaise team knowledge, skill, and engagement through collaborative technical sessions and other tech forums. Mentor and assess engineers, continuously developing and maintaining a strong talent pipeline, and actively participating in calibrations and assessments. Role model and develop a culture of inclusivity on the team. You will guide and mentor engineers to elevate experimentation and growth engineering capabilities across the organization.\n\nCollaborate effectively with peer engineers, data scientists, analysts, and architects; Proactively connect and collaborate with adjacent teams and cross-functional partners to ideate and solve problems together.\n\nInfluence and communicate effectively with non-technical audiences, including senior product and business management. You will explain complex technical architectures and designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive decisions.\n\nQualifications\nQualifications\nBS or MS in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.\n\n9+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in data engineering.\n\nExpertise in developing Software for Java (Spring & Springboot), Scala for Spark streaming & Spark applications, or other JVM based languages.\n\n5+ years of Expert professional experience with SQL, XML, JSON, YML, very strong Python and Linux.\n\nKnowledge of AI / ML, Generative AI, and experience with growth-focused AI/ML applications (personalization, recommendation engines, predictive modeling).\n\nUse of GenAI technologies such as Cursor or Windsurf to accelerate development and efficiency in the software development to build reusable GenAI platform components.\n\nExpertise with tools and frameworks such as Docker, Spark, Scala, Jupiter Notebook, Databricks Notebooks, Kubernetes, Feature Management Platforms, and SageMaker.\n\nExpert knowledge of software development methodologies and practices, including Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies.\n\nStrong background using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, EMR (Elastic Map Reduce), DynamoDB, and Athena, or equivalent cloud computing approaches. Expertise with AWS is specifically noted.\n\nProfessional working experience in Data Warehousing and analytic architecture and experience working with large data volumes and data visualization.\n\n5+ years professional working experience with various big data technologies, including Hive, Hadoop, Kafka, Columnar Databases, and Graph Databases. Strong experience with stream processing or near real-time data ingestion is important.\n\nExperience with low-latency NoSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB) is a plus. Experience with building stream-processing applications using Spark Streaming, Flink, etc., is a plus.\n\nExcellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to influence at all levels.\n\nStrategic mindset: influences the team and platform’s short and long-term strategy for maximum business impact.\n\nUses data to influence product and technology decisions within their scope.\n\nComfortable parachuting into new areas, quickly understanding technical landscapes, and driving immediate 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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