Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - C# .NET

Overview

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us build and evolve the core backend systems that power our next-generation tax platform. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of high-scale backend engineering , and language runtime integration .

You will work on the systems that underpin our business-critical tax calculation engines, contributing to the scalability, reliability, and performance of services that support critical tax logic execution.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and improves software solutions.
• Solves complex problems by leveraging a variety of technologies.
• Driven to achieve results and committed to producing high-quality code.
• Leads the process of gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and managing project and test plans.
• Demonstrates a strong interest and aptitude for learning new coding languages as necessary.
• Functions as a technical leader and domain expert, beginning to shape technology and product strategy. Makes informed decisions at a local level, considering both immediate and long-term implications, as well as business impact.
• Utilizes data to inform product and technical decisions within their area of responsibility.
• Enhances team knowledge, skills, and engagement through collaborative technical workshops and other relevant forums.
• Collaborate with compiler/runtime engineers and AI/ML teams to support intelligent language tooling.
• Mentors and evaluates engineers, actively fostering and sustaining a robust talent pipeline. Regularly participates in performance reviews and calibration sessions.
• A quick and eager learner who actively seeks opportunities to contribute to other Intuit codebases and open-source projects.
• Possesses expertise in cloud technologies and in architecting and delivering highly scalable and resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in backend or systems-level software development.
• Proven experience building scalable, distributed backend systems in production environments.
• Strong designing and developing Desktop solutions expertise using Delphi 12, XE5, , C#, .Net and related technologies
• Experience with Desktop Applications Development (WPF, WCF, Winforms).
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience on scripting languages like React JS is preferred.
• Experience in developing and deploying code to production on AWS and providing analytics and monitoring for the application.
• Deep understanding of building highly available infrastructure using public cloud technologies and native services.
• Low-level experience with JVM, CLR, or other language runtime environments.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, multithreading, memory management, and networking.
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and DevOps best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to compiler or interpreter internals is a plus, but not required.
• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of language tooling, custom DSLs, or domain-specific platforms is a bonus.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset.