Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the Company

Come join the "QuickBooks Online Product Development team (Small Business and Self Employed Group)" as a "Senior Software Engineer". QuickBooks is the flagship accounting software from Intuit that fuels millions of small business owners and accountants across multiple countries globally. QuickBooks is truly the operating system behind small business accounting and comes in multiple flavours – QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop as well as the mobile edition. The Small Business Group provides multiple offerings of QuickBooks features such as Core Accounting, Payments, Payroll, Point of Sale (POS). Built on cutting edge technologies by world class engineers based on Global Engineering Principles, the SBG product development team fosters innovation, provide the best in class experience to our small business owners, accountants and through Design for Delight, Rapid Prototyping, Fail Fast and Agile processes.

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/smallbusiness/

Responsibilities

• Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Designing/developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentoring junior engineers, new team members, and applying technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
• Hands-on coding
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the project
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

Scope & Impact

Responsible for complex features or multiple simple features. Works within the team and collaboration across partners/consumers. Executes proficiently within a generally established architecture through technical solution design and delivery. Leverages their deep understanding of customers' product usage to make design, coding and/or solution choices. Owns the end-to-end quality, design, maintenance and support of their feature.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
• Foundation skills: Coding, Design & Architecture, Operational Excellence
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Proficient in programming in Java/J2EE technologies, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, troubleshooting, data handling
• Writes reusable and self-serve code with coaching from seniors
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)