Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)

Overview

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 flavors – QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop as well as the mobile edition. The Small Business Group provides multiple offerings of QuickBooks features such as Core Accounting, QuickBooks Commerce, 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, providing 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/

QuickBooks Commerce enables businesses to reach more customers, make more sales, add new channels and manage existing ones with seamless inventory integrations. It also helps our customers to easily identify their highest-performing products across channels to improve their sales strategy.

Customers using QuickBooks Commerce can optimize their entire operations from one place including managing orders, tracking inventory and improving fulfillment from all channels with a single platform while getting powerful insights into all their sales data on-demand.

This position requires strong software engineering skills. If you love solving real-world challenges and making customers happy while fostering your desire to write perfect code and user experience, this is the job for you. Along with coding, you will be responsible for working with product managers, backend developers, and designers on our agile team structure. We love product engineers who lead the charge, communicate with customers and deliver the most beautiful, intuitive application.

Responsibilities

• Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications and solutions.
• Designing/developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POCs)
• Roughly 80-90% hands-on coding.
• Use your coding expertise to design and implement scalable, modular and secure services.
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the project
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
• Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentoring junior engineers, new team members, and applying technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing consumer-facing web applications as well as responsible for designing integration centric solutions with experience of modern API technologies
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years’ experience with React and JavaScript in a single page architecture, with hands-on knowledge.
• Experience with HTML and CSS. Familiarity with standard JavaScript async patterns (closures, call backs, promises, error handling
• 4+ years’ experience with Kotlin, Java, and API (creating and consuming) with ReST or GraphQL API modeling.
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience with Postgres, Data Lake, Kafka, & schema modeling will be a plus.
• Strong understanding of Software Design, Architecture and working with large scale systems.
• Knowledge of streaming frameworks, event-driven architecture is a plus
• Solid foundation in writing scalable web application code following best practices of accessibility, internationalization and instrumentation.
• Ability to understand and execute on paradigm of “Discover-Implement-Ship-Measure-Learn”
• Strong AI/ML experience.
• Solid communication skills