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Principal Engineer – Builder Catalyst

Category Software Engineering Location Mountain View, California; San Diego, California; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York Job ID 2024-63643

Company Overview

Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ 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 the Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ as a Principal Software Engineer and help us power prosperity around the world. We are looking for engineers that love to take on new challenges, solve tough problems, and have deep empathy for our customers. You’ll work with a small group of passionate engineers, product managers and designers.

Responsibilities

  • Drives velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company. 
  • Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
  • Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems
  • Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment
  • Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outsideof their primary area of ownership.
  • Knowledge of building AI native applications
    • Guides the applicability of AI to customer problemsthrough a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies.
    • Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracyof solutions.
    • High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons.
    • Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications.
  • Creates robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications
  • Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applyingcutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems

 Team/ Collaboration:

  • Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ for cross-functional design, development, and integration
  • Works with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to design, develop, test, and release features

 Community:

  • Contributes to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve the engineering community.
  • Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements. 

Qualifications

  • Ability to drive velocity in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with numerous stakeholders
  • 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.
  • 7+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications.
  • Full-stack development experience with AI technologies/tools and apply it to user experiences or backend solutions.
  • Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vert.x, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python
  • Experience with at least one of the following:
    • Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
    • Back-end technologies like Java, Typescript, Spring, Express (NodeJS)
  • Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly desired.
  • Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related area.

 Team/Leadership Qualifications

  • Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Strong mentoring skills. Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people
  • Prefers working in a team and collaborates with other cross-functional partners. 
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
  • Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
  • "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
  • Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones

 

Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is New York $245,500 - $332,500, Bay Area California $247,500 - 335,000, Southern California $233,000 - 315,000. 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 . Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Career Path

Mobility plays an important role for our engineering community. In addition to vertical growth, our teams offer lateral growth opportunities. Whether it’s working on a different tech stack or product, Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ will help you get to the next step in your career.

  • Software Engineer 1 & 2
  • Sr. Software Engineer
  • Staff Software Engineer
  • Sr. Staff Software Engineer
  • Principal Software Engineer
  • Distinguished Software Engineer

There's so much flexibility in terms of moving not just between teams, but between roles.

Lucy Shen Developer Advocate