principal Software engineer

Overview

Come join the Virtual Expert Platform as a "Principal Software Engineer". Virtual Expert platform will provide a set of capabilities that include, Chat, Telephony, Video, co-browsing, appointments, secure document sharing and storage, Intelligent routing and matching that allows our customers and experts to seamlessly collaborate with the highest level of trust, ease of usage, world class availability and quality, flexibility and have an enjoyable experience as we help them Power towards their Prosperity

Responsibilities

• Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture
• Drive design and implementation of durable and software solutions that will solve critical customer problems
• Recommend development best practices for application development
• Recommend and support development tools
• Capture requirements and use cases
• Deliver technical design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure web services with excellent quality
• Partner 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
• Work with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, Q/A and Production Operations to develop, test, and release features
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting and applying cutting edge technology and software paradigms
• Actively stay abreast of mobile/SaaS/PaaS trends and standards, recommend best practices and share learning
• Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems and share key learnings
• Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole
• Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
• Coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals and engineering process improvements
  
  

Qualifications

• B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or related area
• 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

• 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 (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 fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:

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