Intuit Mailchimp is the leading marketing platform for small businesses. We empower millions of customers around the world to build their brands and grow their companies with a suite of marketing automation, multichannel campaigns, CRM, and analytics tools.
Our candidate is a Backend technical leader who has experience working in and operating large-scale solutions, plus familiarity with current technology trends and patterns. In addition to technical expertise, you must also be a skilled communicator and collaborator comfortable working across Engineering teams and multiple partner departments.
Intuit Mailchimp is a hybrid workplace, giving employees the opportunity to collaborate in person with team members in our office two to three days per week.
Responsibilities- Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end and across multiple layers of architecture.
- Design and implement durable software solutions that solve critical customer problems and are scalable, secure, and maintainable, while interacting with numerous other services.
- Provide recommendations and best practices for application development and developer tools.
- Stay updated on industry best practices, share insights, and apply cutting-edge technologies.
- Innovate to fuel the growth of Intuit, generating creative ideas for emerging business needs.
- Set technical direction for and own the design and implementation of the overall system architecture and infrastructure.
- Develop new features, enhance existing ones, and resolve defects.
- Empower team members—including developers, technical support, and QA—through technical mentoring, documentation contributions, and automating manual tasks.
- Define and adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices.
- Ensure quality through thorough testing and peer reviews for your work and the work of cross-functional teams.
- Scope, estimate, and prioritize work effectively
Team/Leadership Characteristics:
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert: mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team through challenging programming and design problems.
- Possess strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
- Effectively influence and communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility.
- Deliver results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships.
- Communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives).
- Exhibit a 'self-starter' attitude and the ability to make independent decisions.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in backend development for large business environments (Kotlin, Java, Go, PHP preferred).
- 5+ years of experience designing complex systems, management products, or business applications.
- Prior experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly preferred.
- Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a preferred language.
- Practical experience developing applications using microservices, container technologies, and container management systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Mesos).
- Strong experience with database design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
- Adherence to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices.
- Commitment to quality via thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews.
- Ability to scope, estimate, and prioritize work effectively.
- Passionate about building great web applications and continuously learning new ways to deliver excellent software products.