Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

At Intuit, we're powering prosperity for millions of consumers and small businesses. Our Fintech API Team sits at the heart of this mission - building secure, intelligent, and scalable APIs that enable innovative financial products and seamless money movement across our ecosystem (TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp). We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in financial technology, API design, and artificial intelligence, including hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - integrating LLMs into our API and Agentic Toolkit. You'll lead the architecture and development of our next-generation fintech APIs that are secure, composable, and AI-native. As a technical leader, you will influence the company's API and AI strategy, guide cross-functional engineering teams, and shape how intelligent financial experiences are built at scale.

10+ years of professional experience in backend or platform engineering, with at least 3 years in fintech or financial services.

Proven expertise in designing and scaling public/private APIs using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.

Experience with AI/GenAI, including recent AI-native development technologies like:

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) -- building AI tools to enable AI-Ready API's.
• Agentic Toolkit - enables popular agent frameworks such as LangChain, Crew.ai and MCP to integrate with Intuit's API.

Familiarity with developer experience (DevX) best practices, including API documentation, SDK generation, and developer portals.

Strong background in security, authentication (OAuth2/OpenID), data privacy, and compliance in fintech environments.

Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure AWS, CI/CD, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Familiarity with embedded and hosted widget technologies for seamless fintech experiences.

Experience leading complex, cross-org initiatives as a hands-on technical leader or architect.

Strong knowledge of Fintech domain, including money movement systems, ledger, payments orchestration, or credit decisioning workflows.

Architect and develop highly reliable, scalable, and secure APIs that power Intuit's Fintech experiences across platforms.

Design APIs and services that are composable, domain-driven, and optimized for both internal and third-party consumption.

Leverage AI/GenAI, including MCP and the Agentic Toolkit, to drive automation, code generation, intelligent orchestration, and agentic API interactions.

Collaborate with product, design, and data science teams to define the future of financial automation and intelligence.

Define API governance, versioning strategy, observability, and best practices across the company.

Drive technical excellence through design reviews, code quality, and mentorship of senior and staff engineers.

Represent the team in architecture forums and contribute to strategic technical decisions across Intuit.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is: Bay Area California $254,500.00 - 344,000.00. This position will 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. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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.