Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Come join the Virtual Expert Platform organization as a principal software engineer. Responsibilities include:

• Driving significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture
• Designing and implementing durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems
• Recommending development best practices for application development
• Recommending and supporting development tools
• Capturing requirements and use cases
• Delivering technical design and implementing highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality
• Partnering 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
• Working with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, Q/A and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features
• Being passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms
• Staying abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommending best practices and sharing learning
• Pursuing and resolving complex or unchartered technical problems and sharing key learnings
• Providing technical leadership and being a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
• Providing/inspiring innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole
• Applying experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers in process and methodologies
• Providing perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements

Qualifications include:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience
• 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 include:

• 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

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs.