Principal Engineer, App Foundations
- Location
- San Diego, California, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Intuit's Consumer Group is responsible for two of the leading financial products in the country: TurboTax , which helps tens of millions of people file with confidence every tax season, and Credit Karma , which gives more than 130 million members a clear, personalized view of their financial health. Both products depend on shared, resilient application infrastructure to move fast without breaking trust, and that infrastructure is what App Foundations, part of Platform Foundations within Consumer Group, is responsible for.
We're investing in a culture of 'builders' by fostering an environment where innovation, creativity, and bold thinking are encouraged. The 'builder' mindset is necessary for us to accelerate our move toward AI-native experiences. This requires more builders who can rapidly apply AI and emerging technologies to solve our customers' problems - across TurboTax's tax filing experiences and Credit Karma's financial health platform alike.
Responsibilities Overall 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 outside of their primary area of ownership
- 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 applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems
Knowledge of building AI-native applications
- Guides the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies
- Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of 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
Team Collaboration
- Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit 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
- Contributes to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve the engineering community
From Intuit's careers page (Company careers page), checked 31 Oct 2026.
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Posted 25 Sept 2026 · checked 31 Oct 2026 · Report this job