Staff Software Engineer Mountain View, California
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Exceptional value offering due to strong brand reputation, competitive salary, and influence on future software development practices.
- High salary: $197,000–$266,500/year
- Key role in shaping next-gen tools
- Influence technical direction and practices in a leading company
- Requires extensive experience in software development
Pros
- High salary range ($197,000–$266,500/year) contributing to financial stability
- Involvement in cutting-edge technology and modern development practices
- Opportunity to impact tools used by a wide range of engineers
Cons
- High competition with an emphasis on significant experience
- Possibly demanding deadlines due to project timelines
- Limited scope for entry-level candidates due to required expertise
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • On-site
Good fit
- Seasoned software engineers
- Technical leaders with a passion for code
- Candidates eager to work with innovative technologies
Not recommended for
- Entry-level programmers
- Those requiring significant remote work
- Individuals not familiar with frontend architecture and performance optimization
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 Intuit’s PDX AppFabric team as a Staff Software Engineer for AppFabric Tooling Team. You'll be building industry-leading tools & services used by all front-end engineers at Intuit. You can expect to get your hands on any part of the technical stack, but you will primarily be building the tools that power the next generation of micro frontend apps.
Responsibilities
- Drive the successful delivery of high-quality tools and infrastructure, encompassing requirements, design, code, and documentation.
- Dedicate approximately 80-95% of your time to hands-on coding.
- Contribute to quality activities, including peer reviews of estimates, design, and code.
- Resolve defects and bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches.
- Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
- Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams, including product management, design, and other business units, to drive forward results.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to team success and positive team dynamics.
- Exhibit a passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software development, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role in product development.
- Expert-level knowledge of bundling and build systems (e.g., webpack, Vite, Rollup, including advanced configurations, plugins, and optimizers).
- Comprehensive understanding of module systems (ESM, AMD, CommonJS) and their implications for bundling and performance.
- Proven experience with microfrontends, including Module Federation, RequireJS, and strategies for externalizing npm dependencies.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and TypeScript, with extensive experience building complex applications with React.
- Hands-on experience with transpilation and linting tools (e.g., Babel, ESLint).
- In-depth knowledge and practical experience with test frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Vitest) and Test Driven Development (TDD).
- Experience building and maintaining Node.js services that support frontend development.
- A deep understanding and practical experience with various frontend performance optimization techniques, including but not limited to, critical rendering path optimization, lazy loading, code splitting, image optimization, and caching strategies.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS exposure is a plus) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions). 5
- An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and of web services (REST)
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.
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,CA: $197,000-$266,500
