Staff Software Developer

Overview

Come join the CX3 Resilience/Performance Engineering team as a Staff Engineer.

Reliability/Performance Engineering works to ensure that TurboTax.com and other Intuit products are highly-available, scale without bottlenecks, and offer world-class performance.

The team is looking for a "full cycle" Software Engineer with a passion for optimization and reliability work who will also spend time designing, developing and supporting a range of performance-related tools. If you want to learn how to solve enterprise-scale engineering problems, like automating everything and making systems that scale and never fail, come see us.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years experience designing and developing web, software, or mobile applications
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Expertise with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD): Java/J2EE, C#, VB.NET, Python, or sometimes C++
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 3+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development
• Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent

• Architecting and developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC's)
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems
• Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding
• Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies