Staff Software Engineer Bangalore, India
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to significant experience requirements, competitive compensation aspects, and opportunity for mentorship and impact in backend engineering.
- Expectations for strong backend expertise and Java/C++ skills.
- Mentorship opportunities for junior engineers.
- Significant impact on company's backend architecture and scalability.
Pros
- Opportunity to work on critical backend systems for a leading financial technology company.
- Prospects to mentor and influence less experienced engineers.
- Involvement in modernizing legacy systems and innovative technology integration.
Cons
- High requirement for extensive experience (10+ years).
- Possibly demanding work environment.
- Limited insight into exact compensation details.
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site / Remote options possible
Good fit
- Senior backend developers looking for impactful projects.
- Professionals with a passion for system scalability and reliability.
- Leaders wanting to mentor junior talent.
Not recommended for
- Developers with less than 10 years experience.
- Individuals seeking non-technical or frontend-focused roles.
- Candidates not inclined towards backend system complexities.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Staff 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 are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us build and evolve the core backend systems that power our next-generation tax platform. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of high-scale backend engineering, and language runtime integration.
You will work on the systems that underpin our business-critical tax calculation engines, contributing to the scalability, reliability, and performance of services that support critical tax logic execution.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend systems that support our tax development language and runtime.
- Contribute to the modernization and integration of legacy systems with modern runtimes (e.g., JVM, CLR).
- Implement performance-critical components using Java and C++ in a distributed, service-oriented architecture.
- Collaborate with compiler/runtime engineers and AI/ML teams to support intelligent language tooling.
- Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence in production environments.
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend or systems-level software development.
- Proven experience building scalable, distributed backend systems in production environments.
- Strong programming skills in Java, C# and/or C++.
- Low-level experience with JVM, CLR, or other language runtime environments.
- Solid understanding of performance optimization, multithreading, memory management, and networking.
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and DevOps best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to compiler or interpreter internals is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of language tooling, custom DSLs, or domain-specific platforms is a bonus.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset.
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:
