Senior Staff Engineer Jobs in Albany, NY

Overview

Come join the Development Productivity team as a Sr. Staff Software Engineer. We are the team bringing the cutting-edge technology and tools to all the Intuit developers, including Cloud Development Environment and AI agents for both coding and coding adjacent tasks.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POCs)
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems
• Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding
• Generate technical documentation and PowerPoint presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Integrate Agentic workflows into backend services, enabling features like code analysis, generation, and autonomous task execution

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience designing and developing web, software, or mobile applications
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with AI frameworks, agentic workflows and LLM integration (e.g., OpenAI API, LangGraph, CrewAI)
• Expertise with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD): Java/J2EE, C#, VB.NET, Python, or sometimes C++
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development
• Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent

• Expert in Golang or Python
• Experience designing and implementing AI agents
• Strong Linux / containerization skills, experience with different operating systems
• Experience developing IDE extensions
• Prompt engineering experience

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may 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 Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: