Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Mailchimp)

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.

• 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.