Staff Backend Software Engineer San Diego, California
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Attractive offering based on competitive pay scale and roles focusing on innovation amidst rapid technological advancements.
- Salary range: $184,500–$250,000/year
- Leading role in edgy technology adoption
- Excellent chance for professional growth in engineering
- Requires solid background and experience in software development
Pros
- Salary range supports financial stability ($184,500–$250,000/year)
- Lead roles provide the opportunity to define technical strategies
- Work within a dynamic and creative team environment
Cons
- High qualifications and experience expectations
- Willingness to adopt intensive work practices required
- Might encounter stressed timelines and project demands
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site/Hybrid
Good fit
- Experienced backend software developers
- Engineers seeking leadership roles in tech
- Professionals wanting to work with cloud technology
Not recommended for
- New entrants to the workforce
- Those seeking completely remote positions
- Candidates lacking experience in complex systems integration
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
We're cultivating a culture that prioritizes innovators, risk-takers, and imaginative thinkers. In pursuit of becoming AI-native, we recognize that fostering a "builder" mindset is essential. This means seeking out those who can seamlessly integrate AI and emerging technologies to efficiently and effectively solve our customers' problems.
At Intuit, we hold a global leadership position in financial management solutions. We've been at the forefront of inventing Virtual Platforms and democratizing cloud computing for small businesses and their patrons alike. Our 40 years of expertise have rooted us in the startup mentality, positively disrupting ourselves as we constantly identify cutting-edge technology and design paradigms. Our teams are dynamic, focused on delivering creative solutions with a side of fun.
Responsibilities
- Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end and across multiple layers of architecture.
- Architect and develop scalable applications or systems.
- Drive the design and implementation of durable software solutions to solve critical customer problems that are scalable, secure, easy to maintain, and interact with numerous other systems.
- Provide recommendations and best practices for application development, platform development, and developer tools.
- Actively stay abreast of industry best practices, share learnings, and experiment and apply cutting edge technologies.
- Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole and generate creative ideas for emerging business needs.
- Work with global, cross-functional teams across time zones.
- Communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
- Proactively identify opportunities to enhance software applications with AI technology
- Coach and mentor junior engineers on best practices of software engineering, leveraging AI to enhance applications, and building their technical expertise to ensure efficient and effective outcomes
- Launch AI integrations in production and evaluate their impact on software performance and user satisfaction, using appropriate metrics
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.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of total experience delivering enterprise-class applications.
- Solid foundation in writing scalable application code following best practices of accessibility, internationalization, and instrumentation.
- Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform, and design constraints on the web and mobile.
- Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
- Proficiency in mid-tier languages like Java.
- Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
- Experience with Relational Database Design and Implementation.
- Interest in building CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
- Strong experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
- Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain.
- Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments.
- Proficient in building or integrating functional AI models using techniques such as LLM prompting, AutoML modeling, etc
- Skilled in evaluating and monitoring the performance of AI technology in production and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal application performance
- Possesses an in-depth understanding of AI integration and can lead the integration process effectively, while coaching junior engineers on how to leverage AI
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, product managers, and software engineers
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:
Southern California, CA: $184,500 - 250,000
