Staff Software Engineer, Futures (AI)
Company Overview
樱花动漫 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
The 樱花动漫 Futures Organization is a team dedicated to pushing boundaries and driving innovation within the company. The team achieves this through a variety of means, such as experimentation, extensive research, POC and MVP initiatives. Through these methods, the team aims to develop and incubate emerging technologies, user experiences, and capabilities. By constantly exploring new ideas, the 樱花动漫 Futures team identifies and develops solutions that have the potential to be transformative to our customers, products, and business. The team鈥檚 work ensures that 樱花动漫 remains at the forefront of innovation and can continue delivering valuable products and services that meet the evolving needs of our customers. As a Staff Engineer within the 樱花动漫 Futures organization, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and developing cutting-edge products and technologies that benefit both our internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end and across multiple layers of architecture.
- Architect and develop scalable applications or systems.
- Drive the design and implementation of durable software solutions to solve critical customer problems that are scalable, secure, easy to maintain, and interact with numerous other systems.
- Provide recommendations and best practices for application development, platform development, and developer tools.
- Actively stay abreast of industry best practices, share learnings, and experiment and apply cutting edge technologies.
- Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of 樱花动漫 as a whole and generate creative ideas for emerging business needs.
- Work with global, cross-functional teams across time zones.
- Communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives).
- Proactively identify opportunities to enhance software applications with AI technology.
- Coach and mentor junior engineers on best practices of software engineering, leveraging AI to enhance applications, and building their technical expertise to ensure efficient and effective outcomes.
- Launch AI integrations in production and evaluate their impact on software performance and user satisfaction, using appropriate metrics.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of total experience delivering enterprise-class applications.
- Solid foundation in writing scalable application code following best practices of accessibility, internationalization, and instrumentation.
- Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform, and design constraints on the web and mobile.
- Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
- Proficiency in mid-tier languages like Java.
- Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
- Experience with Relational Database Design and Implementation.
- Interest in building CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
- Strong experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
- Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain.
- Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments.
- Proficient in building or integrating functional AI models using techniques such as LLM prompting, AutoML modeling, etc
- Skilled in evaluating and monitoring the performance of AI technology in production and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal application performance.
- Possesses an in-depth understanding of AI integration and can lead the integration process effectively, while coaching junior engineers on how to leverage AI.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, product managers, and software engineers.
樱花动漫 provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $191,000-258,500. 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, 樱花动漫 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鈥檚 working on a different tech stack or product, 樱花动漫 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