Staff Software Engineer

Traffic Management Platform Developer

You will be part of traffic team in PDX org to deliver a Traffic Management Platform with the high availability, large scale and excellent usability that Intuit needs. You will be working on cutting edge technologies such as API gateway on Envoy and Agentic platforms.

Responsibilities

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning

Presenting the designs along with trade offs to the technical forum

Demonstrate high operational excellence mindset.

Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches

Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments

Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results

Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers

Roughly 70% hands-on coding

Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies

Result oriented mindset with an affinity to produce high quality code

Have a customer focused mindset

Qualifications

BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience

10+ years working as a software engineer, ideally using Agile/Scrum

Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical application

An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Experience with any of the following Object-Oriented Languages (OOD): Java/J2EE or other language like Golang.

Strong working knowledge of API development standards like REST/GraphQL protocol, pagination, throttling, caching and routing mechanisms.

Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.

Hands on experience with JVM profiling tools

Proven ability to balance work on multiple projects in parallel.

Ability to learn quickly, pivot, visualize and own a feature end-to-end.

Strong end to end testing mindset, and working knowledge of Front-End and Back-End testing techniques.

Experience working with Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/ Kubernetes/Container platforms based development

Experience working with mature codebases

An understanding of unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)

'Self-starter' attitude and ability to make decisions independently

Helpful, can-do attitude and a willingness to take ownership of problems

Strong desire to learn and grow

Excellent problem-solving skills with a history of superb delivery against assigned tasks

Excellent verbal and written communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Outstanding partnership skills

Experience in leading and mentoring Junior Team members