Staff Software Engineer Mountain View, California
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Valuable position with a focus on architecture and big data solutions, benefiting from a strong salary and extensive technical responsibilities.
- Competitive salary: $197,000–$266,500/year
- Lead in developing marketing data solutions
- Mentorship opportunities for engineering teams
Pros
- Critical role in marketing strategy through data-driven solutions
- Opportunity to lead and mentor a team of engineers
- Attractive compensation package ($197,000–$266,500/year)
Cons
- High expectations related to leadership and technical skills
- Potential long working hours during projects
- Involvement in complex data management tasks demands focus
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site
Good fit
- Senior engineers with strong data and leadership experience
- Professionals looking to innovate in marketing technology
- Candidates wanting to lead teams in engineering
Not recommended for
- Individuals new to the software engineering field
- Those wishing to avoid leadership roles
- Candidates preferring strictly 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
Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Marketing Technology team. In this leadership position, you will guide a team of engineers in developing critical data-driven solutions vital to Intuit's marketing strategies, including the effective management and utilization of big data.
Responsibilities
- Architecting and developing software, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC).
- Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning.
- Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems.
- Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding.
- Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options and educate development teams and business users.
- Resolve defects/bugs during testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches.
- Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including product management, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results.
- Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant solutions.
- Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies
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
- 8+ years’ experience designing and developing software with emphasis on data and big data.
- Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
- Expertise with Java/J2EE and Python.
- Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Expertise in the Software design/architecture process
- Expertise with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development
- Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent
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-$266,500
