Staff Software Engineer Mountain View, California
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value score due to the role's responsibility in mobile application enhancement and leadership opportunities in AI, paired with competitive compensation.
- Salary range: $197,000 - $266,500/year
- Leadership position with AI integration focus
- Opportunity to work on impactful mobile applications
- Must have significant experience in mobile development
Pros
- Leadership role in a cutting-edge mobile software environment
- High demand for mobile developers with AI integration expertise
- Attractive compensation structure with bonuses and equity
Cons
- Requires significant prior experience (7+ years) in mobile development
- Fast-paced mobile tech environment may impact work-life balance
- Expectation to stay current with rapidly evolving technologies
Who it's for
Senior to Principal • In-office (Mountain View)”
Good fit
- Senior mobile developers
- Engineers with AI expertise
- Professionals looking to lead and innovate in tech
Not recommended for
- Less experienced developers
- Those uninterested in mobile or AI advancements
- Candidates seeking entirely remote work
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
Come join us as a Staff Software Engineer – Mobile on the QuickBooks Live team, in the Global Business Solutions group. In this role you would leverage your hands-on engineering expertise to expand our platform so we can delight Intuit’s millions of users with amazing digital experiences!
We challenge ourselves to be the best - through our hunger for technical and personal growth while creating world-class software. We are lifelong students and teachers, always learning from and evolving ourselves and the people, processes, and technology around us. If this culture sounds interesting – we would love to talk to you about joining our team!
We are seeking a Staff Mobile Software Developer with a strong passion for building successful applications, services, and APIs that deliver big value to customers. You are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and changes. You love to take initiative and have a bias towards action. You are not afraid to tackle difficult problems and dive into new technologies. You are highly motivated and creative problem solver with a passion for innovation.
Responsibilities
- Create impactful mobile experiences with deep customer empathy, quickly translating insights into mockups, wireframes, and proof-of-concept code.
- Act as the technical subject matter expert, mentoring fellow engineers, leading a small team, and solving challenging programming and design problems.
- 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.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of professional experience with expertise in developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale, consumer-facing mobile applications.
- Expertise in modern mobile technologies, with specific deep experience in either Android(e.g., Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK) or iOS (e.g., Swift, SwiftUI) development.
- Experience in the Software design/architecture process.
- Experience in the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical issues to different audiences.
- Familiarity with the development challenges that come with highly scalable and available web applications.
- Experience with unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD).
- 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:
Bay Area California $197,000.00 - 266,500.00
