Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Join the TurboTax Foundation organization as a Principal Engineer. The TurboTax Foundation team develops high-volume platform capabilities that enable customer-facing experiences leveraged by Intuit customers to complete their tax returns. Our team is at the forefront of full-stack development at Intuit, collaborating with product managers to deliver exceptional user experiences. Our code is a critical component of Intuit, used by millions of customers annually. We have adopted agile processes to move quickly and consider our people as our most important asset, taking the growth of our engineers seriously.

What You'll Bring

Leadership and Empowerment: In this role, you will empower engineers by leading by example and bringing out the best ideas from the team.
Product Development: Your team will create and bring customer-driven software products to market, addressing current customer needs while building for the future.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships and alignment with partners across the business, including Product Management, Design, and Software and Quality Engineers.
Technical Leadership: With over 5 years of experience as a technical leader of software engineering teams, you have successfully delivered customer-driven software products.
Team Management: Lead a team of Software Engineers focused on improving developer velocity, scalability, and testability of Intuit’s diverse project areas and platforms.
Innovation and Change: Demonstrated experience in leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions, and fostering effective engineering teams.
Technical Expertise: Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle, including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure.
Developer Tools and Infrastructure: Create the next generation developer tooling and infrastructure for Intuit, focusing on productivity, testing, and release.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to think and act strategically for all stakeholders.
Passion for Technology: Passion for being at the leading edge of technology with a minimum of 12-14 years of hands-on software development experience (C++, Java, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.).
Agile Development: Experience with Agile development methodologies and SaaS and/or mobile technologies.
Communication Skills: Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
Educational Background: BS in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent work-related experience.

How You Will Lead

Technology leaders at Intuit think strategically and drive for results. They build high-performing teams by placing the right people in the right job at the right time. Leaders help to innovate by thinking differently and leading their teams to embrace new ideas that produce outstanding results for our customers. Leaders at Intuit inspire others through action by creating a spirit of collaboration. With technical and leadership expertise, you will manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, oversee a large product budget, and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.